Subjects Urban Development

Technical drawing showing streets and sewers

Leverington Avenue Stormwater Sewer

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

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

Cobbs Creek: A Brief Historical Overview by Adam Levine

High Water: Flooding in Philadelphia

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

Visions of the Schuylkill, 1884 and Now

The Water Supply Problem of Philadelphia, 1899

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

Aramingo Canal, Then and Now

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

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

The Sad History of Frankford Creek