Places Pennsylvania

Map Lovers’ Monday: More is not necessarily better.

Map Lover’s Monday: Looking for Cleaner Water

Schuylkill River watershed, population in 1904

Map Lovers’ Monday: Schuylkill River from Wissahickon Creek to Norristown, 1913

Map Lovers’ Monday: Philadelphia front and center

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800

Map Lover’s Monday: Fairmount Park, 1869

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

Aqueduct carrying sewer over Creishem Creek, in the Wissahickon Valley, 1892

Cresheim Aqueduct

City of Reading map, 1872

Street map of Reading, Pennsylvania, 1872

Colored ink drawing showing drainage areas and sewer inlets in Philaelphia in the early 19th century

Drainage area plan, early 19th century

Pen-and-ink drawing depicting the plan for stormwater regulation of Sassafras (Race) Street in Philadelphia in 1819

Sassafras (Race) Street Survey, 1819

1848 Pine Street sewer plan showing an outlet into the Delaware River

Pine Street sewer plan, 1848

Dripps map of Frankford and vicinity, 1849

Thomas Meehan

Thomas Meehan, city councilman

Wire Bridge at Fairmount

Schuylkill Navigation lock at Fairmount, 1873

Scenes on the Wissahickon

Scenes on the Wissahickon Creek (Picturesque America)

Wissahickon near Paper Mill Bridge, 1873

Wissahickon Creek near the Paper Mill Bridge (Picturesque America)

Drive Along the Wissahickon

Drive along the Wissahickon Creek Vallley (Picturesque America)

Map showing various routes of transportation in Philadelphia and surrounding area. Focused mainly on suburban Philadelphia areas.

Map Lovers’ Monday: 1896 Suburban Transportation Map

Mount Moriah Historic Cemetery and Arboretum

Hand-drawn and colored map depicting a river with streams branching off of it

Map Lovers’ Monday: 1891 Water Supply Plan

Sometimes the backside is the best side

Diagram from sewage treatment plan for Philadelphia, 1912