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

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

Sandy Run Watershed and the Holmesburg Water Works

Fairmount Park topographical map, showing East Park Reservoir, 1872

Philadelphia from Belmont, West Park (Picturesque America)

Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)

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)

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

Fairmount

Fairmount Water Works, about 1860

Showing method of sinking the pipe on the bed of the River (2004.057.0074.006)

Showing the method of sinking the pipe on the bed of the river