![“Fairmount Waterworks. From the forebay.” (From nature & on stone G. Lehman; Published by C.G. Childs & G. Lehman, 1833. Free Library of Philadelphia, Print & Picture Collection)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/05_FWW_castner-21_7_Crop_750w.jpg?w=300)
![“Fairmount Waterworks. From the forebay.” (From nature & on stone G. Lehman; Published by C.G. Childs & G. Lehman, 1833. Free Library of Philadelphia, Print & Picture Collection)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/05_FWW_castner-21_7_Crop_750w.jpg?w=300)
![Fourth of July in Centre Square, John Lewis Krimmel, ca. 1812. The wooden statue in the fountain, “Allegory of the Schuylkill River (Water Nymph and Bittern)”, was carved in 1809 by Philadelphia sculptor William Rush.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/KRIMMEL-1845_3_100dpi.jpg?w=300)
Fourth of July, Centre Square, ca. 1812
![This Philadelphia street scene, with dogs facing off with pigs for a pile of tasty garbage, was captured by artist Augustus Kollner in 1844, but would have been very familiar to 18th-century Philadelphians.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DogvsPig_20050150129_700w.jpg?w=300)
“Town street scavengers from life,” Kollner, 1844
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Preparation for War to Defend Commerce
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Goal (jail) in Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1800
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Congress Hall and New Theatre in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
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Library and Surgeon’s Hall in Fifth Street, Philadelphia, 1800
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New Market, in South Second Street, Philadelphia, 1800
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High Street from the Country Marketplace, Philadelphia, with the procession in commemoration of the death of General George Washington, Dec. 26, 1799
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High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1800
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New Lutheran Church in Fourth Street, Philadelphia
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