Neighborhoods Center City

The ecology of Center City, Philadelphia (in case you didn’t know there was any)

Color image of a grassy field with trees and buildings surrounding it and white lines drawn on the grass mimicking the path of a creek.

Drawing Dock Creek

The Manayunk Expressway

Indoor plumbing in mid-19th century Philadelphia

Schuylkill River Harbor Police Report, 1884

Black-and-white image of a creek with people around it and a large building behind it

Dock Creek Sewer in 1849: A report on its condition made to City Councils

The Worry of the Wires

Visions of the Schuylkill, 1884 and Now

Centre Square Water System

Centre Square Water Works, Drawings of Intake Basin

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

Ground Plan, Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia

Fairmount Water Powered Works Expansion (1859 to 1861)