Topics City Life

Still on the Map: Poquessing Creek and its Tributaries

Houses on an abutment, from The Waffle

The Waffle: Water History Video 6

Plans and maps of the Pennypack Creek Watershed in Philadelphia

The ecology of Center City, Philadelphia (in case you didn’t know there was any)

History of Belfield (1934)

Early photographs of Fairmount and vicinity, 1848

Early visions of Philadelphia’s airport

Frankford Creek Watershed Historical Timeline

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

Overbrook, as it was. A brief history of the Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, focusing on changes in the natural landscape.

Cobbs Creek in the Days of the Old Powder Mill

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