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Landscape Changes
Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800
Models of Change
Mount Moriah Historic Cemetery and Arboretum
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
Drawing Dock Creek
Cobbs Creek in the Days of the Old Powder Mill
The Manayunk Expressway
Sewers, Pollution, and Public Health in 19th Century Philadelphia
Smith and Windmill Islands
The Worry of the Wires
Visions of the Schuylkill, 1884 and Now
The Water and Drainage History of Philadelphia
Fairmount Gardens with the Schuylkill Bridge, 1839
Images from “A Day in the Ma’sh” by Maurice F. Egan, Scribner’s Monthly, July 1881
Travel through the Philadelphia of a century ago, with a severely erudite guide
View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827
Penn’s Treaty with the Indians (Watson’s Annals)
Penn landing at Chester (Watson’s Annals)
Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)
Drawbridge and Dock Creek, Watson’s Annals