Item Types Drawing

An artistic work executed using charcoal, pencil, pastels, crayons, and other dry media.

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

This Philadelphia street scene, with dogs facing off with pigs for a pile of tasty garbage, was captured by artist Augustus Kollner in 1844, but would have been very familiar to 18th-century Philadelphians.

“Town street scavengers from life,” Kollner, 1844

Water, Water Everywhere – Philadelphia Record, 1937-03-14

Black-and-white image of a refinery with smokestacks emitting smoke

A Day in the Ma’sh – Oil Refinery