Subjects Real Estate Development

Either residential or commercial devlopment, in planning, process or completed.

Models of Change

1914 map showing the plan for the collection and treatment of sewage in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia’s Sewer Problem

Sewer systems, City of Philadelphia, 1927 and 1929

Requiem for a stream: Adams Run in Oak Lane

Black-and-white image shows a trolley car emerging from a building with men standing alongside

Filling Low Land: A Story of Ash-Dumping in the Wingohocking Creek Watershed

Cobbs Creek: A Brief Historical Overview by Adam Levine

From Creek To Sewer

Dealing with the city’s wastes in the mid-19th century

Northeast Philadelphia history, one page at a time: The Holmesburg Library Scrapbook Collection