Subjects Mapping

Philadelphia Navy Yard, July 1872

Hopkins Darby 1877 map

Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 1877

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

Requiem for a stream: Still House Run in Manayunk

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

State of the Schuylkill River in 1876: Sewage pollution and possible remedies

Birkinbine Schuylkill Hydrographical Survey 1861-66

Two reports on the state of the Schuylkill River, 1867

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’

Exploring the Lenapehoking Watershed on Native American Heritage Day

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)