Introduction: This project is an effort to bring together some resources -- images, documents, tools, and links -- for pursuing historical information about place in the five-county Philadelphia area: Bucks, Chester, Delaware. Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties. The overarching idea is to use new media to more effectively disseminate information about place, to enhance cross-institutional access to documentary materials of this sort, to better connect people with the history of their environment, and to thus enrich their lives here.
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Commercial Panoramas
[Rae] [Baxter]Engraved and Lithographed Views
[Birch] [Wild] [Childs] [Wainwright lists]Illustrations in Architectural Journals
[Late 19th-century architectural journals] [Catalogue of the T Square Club, 1914]Photographs
[Richards] [Newell] [Moran] [King's Views] [Philadelphia Suburban Homes, c. 1889] [Dillon and Lutz] [PHDIL]
[Aerial photo lists] [Lantern Slides, HSP] [PACSCL guide to area photo collections]Paintings, Watercolors and Sketches
[Breton] [Evans via PHDIL] [Kennedy db] [Oil paintings]Measured drawings
[Philadelphia Rowhouses]Real Estate Atlases
[Lists of atlases] [Mueller, Atlas of Lower Merion, 1896]
[Hexamer and Locher, Maps of the City of Philadelphia,1858-62]Integrated Protoypes
[Central Germantown] [Western Wash West]
Research Tools
[City Directories] [Tax records] [Census records] [Student papers] [Reports] [Interconnected finding aids: scrapbooks and indexes] [Databases] [Cultural heritage surveys]
[Repositories, contacts, and links] [Non-virtual visits] [Related links] [Analogous websites]