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

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

Dripps map of Frankford and vicinity, 1849

Noll’s New Official Guide Map of Philadelphia, 1897

Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

History of Belfield (1934)

Map showing the progression of the Battle of Germantown

Battle of Germantown map, 1777

Black-and-white photo of an ash car, side view, in the doorway of a barn with trees behind

Car 2615, Brill, 1909, Brill Curtis trucks

Black-and-white diagram of a Philadelphia ash car

Philadelphia Ash Service – Plan, Side and End Elevations of Car

Black-and-white photo of men, horses and a cart inside of a barn-like structure

Ash dumping house, 2nd floor, 15th and Wood St.

Black-and-white image of a rail car with its door open

Ash car 2622, later P-13 and W-31

Black-and-white photo of a trolley car atop debris with several workmen around and atop it

Car 5615, later P-16 and the second D-31, Brill, 1911, Curtis C-1112 trucks