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

Mill Creek Sewer drawing, cross-section, 1869

Archival Storytelling: Water History Video 4

Schuylkill River watershed, population in 1904

Philadelphia harbor and rivers chart with points of interest

Map of Philadelphia Harbor, Delaware and Schuylkill, 1912

City of Reading map, 1872

Street map of Reading, Pennsylvania, 1872

Lower Dublin township map

Lower Dublin Township, Philadelphia County, in 1848

Dripps map of Frankford and vicinity, 1849

Pennypack Park and Creek map, Roland Williams, 2005

Pennypack Park Map

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part II, with Adam Levine

Frankford borough map, 1845

Map of Frankford Borough, 1845

Philadelphia Navy Yard, July 1872

Hopkins Darby 1877 map

Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 1877

Black-and-white image of an ornately lettered document with a decorative border

Images from ‘The Water Supply of the City of Philadelphia by a proposed Aqueduct from Norristown Dam’