Topics Landscape Changes

Map Lovers’ Monday: The David Rumsey Map Collection

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

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