Topics Landscape Changes

Map Lovers’ Monday: New Jersey 1869

Map Lovers’ Monday: On the Waterfront

Map Lovers’ Monday: Topography of Philadelphia from 1863

Map Lovers’ Monday: Schuylkill River from Wissahickon Creek to Norristown, 1913

Sandy Run Watershed and the Holmesburg Water Works

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800

Map Lover’s Monday: Fairmount Park, 1869

Photograph of Roberts Mill on Wingohocking Creek in Germantown, built in the late 17th century. (Photograph by J. C. Browne, 1871. Castner Collection/Free Library of Philadelphia)

Roberts Mill, Wingohocking Creek, 1871

2008 map showing historic Dock Creek with adjacent historical features

Map of Historic Dock Creek

Pen-and-ink drawing depicting the plan for stormwater regulation of Sassafras (Race) Street in Philadelphia in 1819

Sassafras (Race) Street Survey, 1819

Fairmount Park topographical map, showing East Park Reservoir, 1872

Dripps map of Frankford and vicinity, 1849

The Discovery Center: The creative reuse of an abandoned city reservoir

Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek

Thomas Mill Covered Bridge on the Wissahickon

Thomas Mill Covered Bridge over Wissahickon Creek (Picturesque America)

Plans and maps of the Pennypack Creek Watershed in Philadelphia

Models of Change

Mount Moriah Historic Cemetery and Arboretum

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

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

Black-and-white diagram showing streets and the Little Tacony Creek

Frankford Creek Watershed: A historical overview of the Philadelphia section