Subjects Urban Development

Smith’s and Windmill Islands

Cobbs Creek: A Brief Historical Overview by Adam Levine

Visions of the Schuylkill, 1884 and Now

Aramingo Sewer, view near Hughes & Patterson and Beach Street Bridge, March 15, 1902

Aramingo Canal, Then and Now

Black-and-white aerial photo of a creek bend with industrial buildings surrounding it

The Sad History of Frankford Creek

Archival Storytelling: A snowy Super Bowl Sunday at Sydenham & Dauphin

Black-and-white reproduction of the title page of an old periodical

19th century life in South Philadelphia’s marshland

View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827

Pegg's Run

Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)

Dock Creek Watson's Annals

Drawbridge and Dock Creek, Watson’s Annals