Subjects Urban Development

Map Lovers’ Monday: Philadelphia in 1957, according to the Pennsy

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800

Colored ink drawing showing drainage areas and sewer inlets in Philaelphia in the early 19th century

Drainage area plan, early 19th century

Philadelphia from Belmont, West Park (Picturesque America)

Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873

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

The Manayunk Expressway

Black-and-white image of a creek with people around it and a large building behind it

Dock Creek Sewer in 1849: A report on its condition made to City Councils

The Worry of the Wires

Visions of the Schuylkill, 1884 and Now

Gritty and the Phanatic in Ida’s Floodwaters