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

Houses on an abutment, from The Waffle

The Waffle: Water History Video 6

Sandy Run Watershed and the Holmesburg Water Works

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

Schuylkill River at Rockland Landing (Picturesque America)

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

History of Belfield (1934)

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

19th century life in South Philadelphia’s marshland

Birkinbine Schuylkill Hydrographical Survey 1861-66

Schuylkill River Hydrographical Survey 1861-66 by H. P. M. Birkinbine

Bird's eye view of Delaware River

Bird’s eye view of Delaware River and Philadelphia, about 1840