Topics Streams & Rivers

Map Lovers’ Monday: Topography of Philadelphia from 1863

Map Lover’s Monday: Fairmount Park, 1869

Noll’s New Official Guide Map of Philadelphia, 1897

Scenes on the Wissahickon

Scenes on the Wissahickon Creek (Picturesque America)

Wissahickon near Paper Mill Bridge, 1873

Wissahickon Creek near the Paper Mill Bridge (Picturesque America)

Drive Along the Wissahickon

Drive along the Wissahickon Creek Vallley (Picturesque America)

Anglers Club member Louis Cook with a 16lb mirror carp caught in Wissahickon Creek

Photos from the Philadelphia Anglers’ Club

The Schuylkill and Wissahickon banks in 1858

Black-and-white photograph depicts a large brick sewer tube lying on a barren landscape

Streams, islands, and ferries of early Philadelphia