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Philadelphia Water Department
Fairmount and Schuylkill, Appletons’ Journal, 1869
Fairmount Dam Fish Ladder diagram
PWD’s Jay Cruz with a striped bass
Last gasp of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956
Pipeline being laid in Wissahickon Avenue
Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978
Fairmount Gardens with the Schuylkill Bridge, 1839
Fair Mount Water Works engine house, 1819
The City and Port of Philadelphia on the River Delaware from Kensington, 1800
Map of the County of Philadelphia from Actual Survey, 1843
Outline Map of the County and City of Philadelphia and Vicinity, 1883
Schuylkill River Hydrographical Survey 1861-66 by H. P. M. Birkinbine
Captain Sewer and Michael Nutter, 1998
Bureau of Water Spring Garden Testing Station, 1901
Northern Liberties and Spring Garden Water Works
Engine House of the Belmont Works
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
Schuylkill steamship excursions ad, 1852
Baldwin Locomotive Works
View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827
Joe Perillo with a large Schuylkill striper in 2015