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

Two views on the water supply, 1939

Philadelphia harbor and rivers chart with points of interest

Map of Philadelphia Harbor, Delaware and Schuylkill, 1912

Photograph of Roberts Mill on Wingohocking Creek in Germantown, built in the late 17th century. (Photograph by J. C. Browne, 1871. Castner Collection/Free Library of Philadelphia)

Roberts Mill, Wingohocking Creek, 1871

Old U. S. Navy Yard

Old U. S. Navy Yard

Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873

Coal Depot, Richmond, on the Delaware (Picturesque America)

Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873

Frankford borough map, 1845

Map of Frankford Borough, 1845

Girard Avenue Bridge, Fairmount Park

Girard Avenue Bridge, Fairmount Park, 1895

Philadelphia Navy Yard, July 1872

History of Belfield (1934)

Black-and-white image showing a factory, smokestacks and smoke, and streets

Dobson’s Mill, 1884, from History of Philadelphia by Scharf & Wescott