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Map Lovers’ Monday: The Ellet Map of Philadelphia County, 1843

Water Bureau Newspaper Scrapbook, 1942-1952

High Water: An Informal History of Flooding in Philadelphia

Rebirth of the Rivers: Water History Video 3

Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks of Frederick Graff Jr., Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Water Department. Part 2: 1858-1871

High Water: Flooding in Philadelphia

William Penn balks at drinking the "mixed drink" offered him: Schuylkill water, mixed with pollution from the upstream sources named. Editorial cartoon by Fred Morgan, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1899. One of a series of cartoons drawn by Morgan protesting the state of the city's drinking water and trying to encourage the passage of legislation authorizing the construction of a water filtration system.

Half a Century of Clean Water

Map of Philadelphia showing Population in year 1920

Map of Philadelphia showing Population in year 1920

Philadelphia the Manufacturing and Industrial Capital map, 1906

1779 Philadelphia map

1779 Revolutionary War-era map of Philadelphia and environs

Black-and-white newspaper ad advertising "Delightfully Romantic Schuylkill Excursions"

Schuylkill steamship excursions ad, 1852

New Plan of Philadelphia, John A. Paxton, 1811