Anthropology: Local Resources

Located at 33rd & Spruce, the Penn Museum is "the largest university museum in the United States. With roughly one million objects[...], the Penn Museum encapsulates and illustrates the human story: who we are and where we came from." Admission is $10 for full-time students with ID, and free for active U.S. military personnel.

See what your neighborhood looked like a century or two ago. This tool is "a web-based repository of geographically organized historical information about Philadelphia, its geography, its buildings, and its people."

Pro Tip: Start with the "Resource Browser" and narrow down your search by choosing categories on the left side of the brower, under either "Resource Type" or "Geography". The "Property Maps / Atlases" offers hi-res images of original atlases published from 1683-1929.