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

Black-and-white image of a refinery with smokestacks emitting smoke

A Day in the Ma’sh – Oil Refinery

Black-and-white image of workers in a pit with a sewer opening behind them and text

Frankford Creek: Sad History of an Urban Stream title page

Outhouse over Schuylkill near Pottstown

Outhouse over the Schuylkill near Pottstown

Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1884

Baldwin Locomotive Works

Pegg's Run

Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)

Drawing from an advertisement for in-home water filters from the McConnell Germ-Proof Filter Company. Depicts a skull and various germs and bacteria.

McConnell Germ-Proof Filters ad (crop)