Topics Landscape Changes

Smith’s and Windmill Islands

The Worry of the Wires

Drainage and Sewerage Report, 1853

Black-and-white aerial photo of a creek bend with industrial buildings surrounding it

The Sad History of Frankford Creek

Archival Storytelling: A snowy Super Bowl Sunday at Sydenham & Dauphin

Black-and-white reproduction of the title page of an old periodical

19th century life in South Philadelphia’s marshland

View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827

Penn's Treaty with the Lenape

Penn’s Treaty with the Indians (Watson’s Annals)

Dock Creek Watson's Annals

Drawbridge and Dock Creek, Watson’s Annals