Subjects Flooding

Includes both flooding caused by both streams overflowing, and by inadequate storwater drainage.

High Water: An Informal History of Flooding in Philadelphia

Map Lovers’ Monday: Schuylkill River from Wissahickon Creek to Norristown, 1913

Report on channelization of Frankford Creek for flood control (1947)

Frankford Creek Watershed Historical Timeline

Frankford Creek Watershed

High Water: Flooding in Philadelphia

Gritty and the Phanatic in Ida’s Floodwaters

Freshet, October 4, 1869

Black-and-white image of workers in a pit with a sewer opening behind them and text

Frankford Creek: Sad History of an Urban Stream title page

Logan Demanding Flood Relief, 8/18/38

Frankford Creek Overflows, 11/1/32

Sewer Demand Taken to City Hall, 7/25/32