Philadelphia History: Images

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.

Collections of photographs by neighborhood, in e-book format. Select Browse Books > Browse Places to find Philadelphia selections.

Authoritative information and images on three centuries of Philadelphia buildings and designers.

Historic ground plans and birds-eye perspective drawings of Philadelphia industrial sites.

Images from Penn's University Archives. Includes pictures of West Philadelphia, the Penn Campus, student groups, and similar subects.

"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.

From Temple University.

Historical images from the collection of Thomas Jefferson University.

Access the Free Library's 1930 Dallin aerial survey and 1928 Regional Planning Federation survey.

2004, 2008, 2010 aerial photography. Downloads through PASDA.

2005 and 2010 orthorectified imagery of the Delaware Valley.

Aerial photos of the mid-Atlantic region's towns, factories, and other sites prior to World War II.

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

A collection of maps and views with accompanying text and bibliographic citations.