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Historic resources from our archives - images, maps, documents, and more.

Fairmount Water Works and the Lemon Hill Observatory

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part 1, with Adam Levine

Repurposing Old Infrastructure: Water History Video 5

Sandy Run Watershed and the Holmesburg Water Works

Fairmount Park topographical map, showing East Park Reservoir, 1872

Philadelphia from Belmont, West Park (Picturesque America)

Schuylkill River above Belmont (Picturesque America)

Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)

Appletons' Journal Schuylkill, 1869

Fairmount and Schuylkill, Appletons’ Journal, 1869

Black-and-white etching of the Wire Bridge at Fairmount, 1873

Wire Bridge at Fairmount, with canal lock and esplanade (Picturesque America)

Wire Bridge at Fairmount

Schuylkill Navigation lock at Fairmount (Picturesque America)

Schuylkill River at Landsdowne

Schuylkill River at Lansdowne (Picturesque America)