Item Types Image

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

Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek

Schuylkill River at Rockland Landing (Picturesque America)

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Mill Creek Sewer under construction. Several men standing beside a giant partially constructed sewer pipe.

Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883

Black-and-white image of a body of water with trees and shoreline in the far distance

Delaware River at Arch Street from the New Jersey side, 1914

Black-and-white photo of an ash car, side view, in the doorway of a barn with trees behind

Car 2615, Brill, 1909, Brill Curtis trucks

Black-and-white image of a rail car with its door open

Ash car 2622, later P-13 and W-31

Black-and-white photo of a trolley car atop debris with several workmen around and atop it

Car 5615, later P-16 and the second D-31, Brill, 1911, Curtis C-1112 trucks

The City and Port of Philadelphia on the River Delaware from Kensington, 1800

Fairmount, bird's eye view from Lemon Hill (detail)

Fairmount Park, bird’s eye view from Lemon Hill, detail

Bird's eye view of Delaware River

Bird’s eye view of Delaware River and Philadelphia, about 1840