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Philadelphia Water Department
Fairmount Dam Fish Ladder diagram
Wire Bridge at Fairmount, with canal lock and esplanade, 1873
Steam engine drawing, Frederick Graff Sr., 1815
Apparatus for testing model turbine wheels used at Fairmount, 1859-60
Fairmount Park, bird’s eye view from Lemon Hill, detail
Sketch of aquarium in former FWW building, interior, ca. 1950
New Mill House at Fairmount
Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Schuylkill Flood 1869
Fairmount Water Works, with “Nymph and Bittern” fountain and standpipe, 1875
View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827
River herring from the Schuylkill
PWD’s Lance Butler with an invasive flathead catfish
Jonval Turbines at New Mill House, 1870