Topics Landscape Changes

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

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

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