Places Philadelphia

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

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

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)

Mount Moriah Historic Cemetery and Arboretum

Sometimes the backside is the best side

Diagram from sewage treatment plan for Philadelphia, 1912

Early visions of Philadelphia’s airport

Down Under, Part 2: Beaver Creek as it appears today

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

Bottled vs. Tap in 1906

Wooden Pipes in Philadelphia

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

Ground Plan, Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia

Centre Square Water Works, Frederick Graff, Sr. Plans, 1799

Visionary planning report for Philadelphia region, 1928

Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978

Black-and-white image of an ornately lettered document with a decorative border

Images from ‘The Water Supply of the City of Philadelphia by a proposed Aqueduct from Norristown Dam’