![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)
![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)
![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
![PWD's Jason Cruz holds a striped bass](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/striper_jay.jpg?w=300)
PWD’s Jay Cruz with a striped bass
![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
![Anglers Club member Louis Cook with a 16lb mirror carp caught in Wissahickon Creek](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Louis_Cook_1.jpg?w=300)
Photos from the Philadelphia Anglers’ Club
![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
![Black-and-white drawing of several dogs on a porch with a baby behind them](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/day-in-the-mash-outdoor-tenants.jpg?w=300)
A Day in the Ma’sh – Outdoor Tenants
![](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Birch_03.jpg?w=300)
The City and Port of Philadelphia on the River Delaware from Kensington, 1800
![Pegg's Run](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/PeggsRun_WAnnals_p436v1_AEL.jpg?w=300)
Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)
![Dock Creek Watson's Annals](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DockCreek_WAnnals_p336v1_AEL.jpg?w=300)
Drawbridge and Dock Creek, Watson’s Annals
![Hands holding a silver river herring fish](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/RiverHerring.jpg?w=300)