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Chestnut Street Bridge, on the Schuylkill River (Picturesque America)
![Overhead image of the Fairmount Dam Fishway and the surrounding area, including the Art Museum, Boathouse Row and the Fairmount Water Works](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/fishwaydiagram.jpg?w=300)
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.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/fairmount-dam-sign-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Fairmount Dam Fishway sign
![An otter at the Fairmount Fishcam in 2005](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/otter5.jpg?w=300)
Otter at Fairmount Water Works fishcam, 2005
![Photo of a bearded man on a boat holding an American shad](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Joe_Amshad.jpg?w=300)
PWD’s Joe Perillo holds an American shad near the Fairmount Fishway
![Black-and-white etching of the Wire Bridge at Fairmount, 1873](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2004.007.0007-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Wire Bridge at Fairmount, with canal lock and esplanade, 1873
![Wire Bridge at Fairmount](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/WireBridge_FairmountWW_Schuylkill_PictAm_AEL-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Schuylkill Navigation lock at Fairmount, 1873
![Black-and-white image of a brick sewer outlet that drains into a creek with trees and a hill behind it](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/thomas-run-sewer-outlet-at-cobbs-creek.jpg?w=300)
Thomas Run sewer outlet at Cobbs Creek
![69th St. Sewer and Culvert across Lansdowne](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/17B-842-scaled.jpg?w=300)
69th St. Sewer and Culvert across Lansdowne AVe.
![View from the Inclined Plane, near Philadelphia, 1838](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2016.002.0039-scaled.jpg?w=300)