From the building of City Hall, to the oldest church in Pennsylvania, to American's most historic penitentiary, the Philadelphia Department of Records holds the country's largest municipal archive of historic photographs, totaling over 2 million images. Now, the Department of Records is making these photographs available to a worldwide audience for the first time through the website PhillyHistory.org.

Never Before Seen Images Tell the Story of Philadelphia and its Industry, Culture, People. From the building of City Hall, to the oldest church in Pennsylvania, to American's most historic penitentiary, the Philadelphia Department of Records holds the country's largest municipal archive of historic photographs, totaling over 2 million images.