Places Pennsylvania

The boats of the Schuylkill Navigation

Map Lovers’ Monday: AQUA, in the beginning

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

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

Report on channelization of Frankford Creek for flood control (1947)

Image shows three bottles of water, one clear, one dark and one with sediment floating in it.

Bottled vs. Tap in 1906

Panoramic Manayunk: Views Past and Present

Schuylkill Navigation Company Scrapbook

Second Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street, Philadelphia

Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street, Philadelphia

Second Street North from Market St. with Christ Church, Philadelphia

Philadelphia the Manufacturing and Industrial Capital map, 1906