Places Pennsylvania

Map Lovers’ Monday: The David Rumsey Map Collection

Old News: Two unusual underground rescues

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