Subjects City Life

Buried Treasures No. 1: The Franklin Sugar Refinery

The ecology of Center City, Philadelphia (in case you didn’t know there was any)

History of Belfield (1934)

Early photographs of Fairmount and vicinity, 1848

Early visions of Philadelphia’s airport

Frankford Creek Watershed Historical Timeline

Frankford Creek Watershed in the context of the development of Philadelphia’s sewers and sewage treatment system

Color image of a grassy field with trees and buildings surrounding it and white lines drawn on the grass mimicking the path of a creek.

Drawing Dock Creek

Cobbs Creek in the Days of the Old Powder Mill

Smith’s and Windmill Islands

The Worry of the Wires

“Fairmount Waterworks. From the forebay.” (From nature & on stone G. Lehman; Published by C.G. Childs & G. Lehman, 1833. Free Library of Philadelphia, Print & Picture Collection)

Fairmount Water Works from the forebay, 1833