Topics Infrastructure

Map Lovers’ Monday: Philadelphia in 1957, according to the Pennsy

Chestnut Street Bridge, on the Schuylkill River (Picturesque America)

Down Under, Part 2: Beaver Creek as it appears today

Twenty-fourth Ward (or West Philadelphia) Works, 1855

Mill Creek Sewer under construction. Several men standing beside a giant partially constructed sewer pipe.

Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883

View from the Inclined Plane, near Philadelphia, 1838

View from the Inclined Plane near Philadelphia, 1838