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

Fairmount Water Works and the Lemon Hill Observatory

Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873

Black-and-white etching of the Wire Bridge at Fairmount, 1873

Wire Bridge at Fairmount, with canal lock and esplanade (Picturesque America)

Gritty and the Phanatic in Ida’s Floodwaters

Black-and-white reproduction of the title page of an old periodical

19th century life in South Philadelphia’s marshland

View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827