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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.

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

Cobbs Creek in the Days of the Old Powder Mill

The Manayunk Expressway

Delaware River Harbor Police Report, 1884

Schuylkill River Harbor Police Report, 1884

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

High Water: Flooding in Philadelphia

Visions of the Schuylkill, 1884 and Now

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