Subjects City Life

Map Lovers’ Monday: Circles of Destruction

Models of Change

Sometimes the backside is the best side

Buried Treasures No. 1: The Franklin Sugar Refinery

Frankford borough map, 1845

Map of Frankford Borough, 1845

Sewer systems, City of Philadelphia, 1927 and 1929

Early visions of Philadelphia’s airport

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

Petition of manufacturers along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia for a new upstream water supply, 1868

New Plan of Philadelphia, John A. Paxton, 1811

A black-and-white image of a small ship with white sails on a river in front of a landscape of trees and the riverbank

The Shield passing the site of Philadelphia (Watson’s Annals)