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Play Ball! Meet the 1960 PWD Softball Team

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800

Frankford Pumping Station, ca. 1900

Frankford Pumping Station Plans and Diagrams, 1870s

Photograph of Roberts Mill on Wingohocking Creek in Germantown, built in the late 17th century. (Photograph by J. C. Browne, 1871. Castner Collection/Free Library of Philadelphia)

Roberts Mill, Wingohocking Creek, 1871

Aqueduct carrying sewer over Creishem Creek, in the Wissahickon Valley, 1892

Cresheim Aqueduct

Portraits of Chieftains Tishcohan (left) and Lapowinsa (right), painted around the time of the Walking Purchase treaty, circa 1735

Portraits of Lenape chiefs Tishcohan (left) and Lapowinsa (right), painted around the time of the Walking Purchase treaty, circa 1737

A hand-pumped fire engine made in Philadelphia in 1792. Water was stored in the copper lined wooden boxes, and two men (one pumping on each handle) forced the water up through the pipe on top, into a hose. (It can be assumed that a bucket brigade was used to keep the boxes filled.)

Hand-pumped fire engine, 1792

Fire axes and fire buckets were standard fire-fighting equipment in the 18th century. The buckets carried water; the axes were used to break into burning buildings. The speaking trumpet at the bottom was used to communicate with firefighters at the scene.

Fire equipment, late 18th century

Old U. S. Navy Yard

Old U. S. Navy Yard

Thomas Meehan

Thomas Meehan, city councilman

Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873

Philadelphia from Belmont, West Park (Picturesque America)

Schuylkill River above Belmont (Picturesque America)

Coal Depot, Richmond, on the Delaware (Picturesque America)

Navy Yard on the Delaware River (Picturesque America)

Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)

Chestnut Street Bridge, on the Schuylkill River (Picturesque America)

Appletons' Journal Schuylkill, 1869

Fairmount and Schuylkill, Appletons’ Journal, 1869

Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek

Overhead image of the Fairmount Dam Fishway and the surrounding area, including the Art Museum, Boathouse Row and the Fairmount Water Works

Fairmount Dam Fish Ladder diagram

The Fairmount Dam Fishway sign, detailing how the fishway works and showing maps and images of fish migration and barriers along the Schuylkill River.

Fairmount Dam Fishway sign

PWD's Jason Cruz holds a striped bass

PWD’s Jay Cruz with a striped bass

An otter at the Fairmount Fishcam in 2005

Otter at Fairmount Water Works fishcam, 2005

Photo of a bearded man on a boat holding an American shad

PWD’s Joe Perillo holds an American shad near the Fairmount Fishway