Subjects Urban Development

Map showing various routes of transportation in Philadelphia and surrounding area. Focused mainly on suburban Philadelphia areas.

Map Lovers’ Monday: 1896 Suburban Transportation Map

Buried Treasures No. 1: The Franklin Sugar Refinery

The Manayunk Expressway

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

Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978

This Philadelphia street scene, with dogs facing off with pigs for a pile of tasty garbage, was captured by artist Augustus Kollner in 1844, but would have been very familiar to 18th-century Philadelphians.

“Town street scavengers from life,” Kollner, 1844

Bridge Street Draw, southeast corner property, June 12, 1896

Congress Hall and New Theatre in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

High Street from Ninth Street, Philadelphia

High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1800

South East Corner of Third and Market Streets, Philadelphia, 1800

Arch Street, with the Second Presbyterian Church, 1800