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

High Water: An Informal History of Flooding in Philadelphia

Water History: Rebirth of the Rivers

Play Ball! Meet the 1960 PWD Softball Team

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800

Pennypack Park and Creek map, Roland Williams, 2005

Pennypack Park Map

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

Frankford borough map, 1845

Map of Frankford Borough, 1845

History of Belfield (1934)

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

Ground Plan, Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia

Visionary planning report for Philadelphia region, 1928

Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978

Receipt from privy cleaning by the Frankford Odorless Excavating Company, 1885

Privy Cleaning Receipt, 1885