Guides: ENGL 0051.401: The [post]Covid University : Images

People and Places

PhillyHistory.org
Photographic images of Philadelphia from the Philadelphia City Archives, which holds approximately 2 million photos dating from the late 1800s, as well as the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.
Images of America
Collections of photographs by neighborhood, in e-book format. Select Browse Books > Browse Places to find Philadelphia selections.
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
Authoritative information and images on three centuries of Philadelphia buildings and designers.
Hexamer General Surveys
Historic ground plans and birds-eye perspective drawings of Philadelphia industrial sites.
University Archives Digital Image Collection
Images from Penn's University Archives. Includes pictures of West Philadelphia, the Penn Campus, student groups, and similar subects.
Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey
"More than 350,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from Pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century." Search by place to limit results to Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures
Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures is a free, searchable database of neighborhood-based reports issued by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission between 1946 and 1990. The database was created by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Philadelphia Jewish Archives Photographs
From Temple University.
Philadelphia Historical Digital Images Library
Historical images from the collection of Thomas Jefferson University.

PhilaGeoHistory - Aerial Photographs
Access the Free Library's 1930 Dallin aerial survey and 1928 Regional Planning Federation survey.
City of Philadelphia - Aerial Photography
2004, 2008, 2010 aerial photography. Downloads through PASDA.
DVRPC Digital Orthoimagery
2005 and 2010 orthorectified imagery of the Delaware Valley.
Dallin Aerial Survey Company, 1924-1941
Aerial photos of the mid-Atlantic region's towns, factories, and other sites prior to World War II.

The following archives of news-related images can be searched by Philadelphia and related topics.

AP Photo Archive
Image and Graphics Databases only available on this subscription. Contains over one million Associated Press photographs (with searchable captions) in two collections, downloadable as JPEG (jpg) images: North American national, regional, state, and local photos with "the best international photos"; Euro/Asian photos. Also, AP Graphics Database provides PDF-format Associated Press-produced information graphics, diagrams, maps, charts, and logos for newspapers and other print media.

Digital Diamond
Selected digitized images from Temple University Libraries' archival and special collections. Search for "Evening Bulletin" to locate photographs from this newspaper, from 1920s onward.