Subjects Landscape

Maps, etchings, newspaper clippings and other images and documents covering the natural landscape of Philadelphia and surrounding areas throughout more than 300 years of history.

Philadelphia from Belmont, West Park (Picturesque America)

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

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

Black-and-white image of a body of water with trees and shoreline in the far distance

Delaware River at Arch Street from the New Jersey side, 1914

State House Garden, Philadelphia, 1800

Benezet House Clarke Hall Chestnut St. Bridge

Benezet House, Clarke’s Hall, and Chestnut St. Bridge (Watson’s Annals)

Dock Creek Watson's Annals

Drawbridge and Dock Creek, Watson’s Annals

Dock Creek and Blue Anchor Inn

Penn Landing at Blue Anchor, from Watson’s Annals

Bathsheba's Bath

Bathsheba’s Bath and Bower