Places Philadelphia

Water Bureau Newspaper Scrapbook, 1942-1952

The Schuylkill Navigation: A Journey on the Historic Nineteenth Century Waterway

The Schuylkill Navigation: A Journey on the Historic Nineteenth Century Waterway

Thomas Gill Maps of the Schuylkill Navigation, 1827

Map Lovers’ Monday: Philadelphia Topography

Schuylkill Navigation: Celebrating 200 years

Map Lovers’ Monday: The David Rumsey Map Collection

Old News: Two unusual underground rescues

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