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

Overhead image of the Fairmount Dam Fishway and the surrounding area, including the Art Museum, Boathouse Row and the Fairmount Water Works

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.

Fairmount Dam Fishway sign

PWD's Jason Cruz holds a striped bass

PWD’s Jay Cruz with a striped bass

An otter at the Fairmount Fishcam in 2005

Otter at Fairmount Water Works fishcam, 2005

Photo of a bearded man on a boat holding an American shad

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

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.

“Town street scavengers from life,” Kollner, 1844

The City and Port of Philadelphia on the River Delaware from Kensington, 1800

Pegg's Run

Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)

Hands holding a silver river herring fish

River herring from the Schuylkill

PWD's Lance Butler holds a flathead catfish caught in the Schuylkill River

PWD’s Lance Butler with an invasive flathead catfish