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Historic resources from our archives - images, maps, documents, and more.

Colored print showin all the booths, restaurants and other amenities of the fair

Ground Plan, Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia

Mill Creek Sewer under construction. Several men standing beside a giant partially constructed sewer pipe.

Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, portrait by Filippo Costaggini, 1880

Portrait of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Black-and-white reproduction of the title page of an old periodical

Images from “A Day in the Ma’sh” by Maurice F. Egan, Scribner’s Monthly, July 1881

Black-and-white drawing of the exterior of a small cabin showing the porch and yard

A Day in the Ma’sh – A Trucker’s Farm Yard

Black-and-white drawing of the interior of a humble cabin

A Day in the Ma’sh – In The Old Cabin Home

Black-and-white image of a man in a boat with a long pole

A Day in the Ma’sh – A Pusher

Black-and-white drawing of several dogs on a porch with a baby behind them

A Day in the Ma’sh – Outdoor Tenants

Black-and-white image of two men in a boat with guns

A Day in the Ma’sh – Rail-Shooting

Black-and-white image shows several people talking in the foreground and figures on horses on a hill in the background

A Day in the Ma’sh – Bell Snicklin’

Black and white photo of a man wearing a hat and standing on a bridge with his arm on a post

Wood truss drawbridge, Orthodox Street over Frankford Creek, 1899 [Detail]

Black and white photo of several men in the foreground, some wearing hats, and a few others standing behind them on a wooden bridge

Bridge Street, intermediate pier, ca. 1896 [Detail]