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Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800
![Thomas Meehan](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/C.5d_FINAL_Thomas-Meehan_edit.jpg?w=300)
Thomas Meehan, city councilman
![Frankford borough map, 1845](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Frankford-borough-1845-Shallcross-HSF.jpg?w=300)
Map of Frankford Borough, 1845
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Map Showing Districts, Boroughs & Townships Incorporated in Consolidation of Philadelphia in 1854
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History of Belfield (1934)
![Colored print showin all the booths, restaurants and other amenities of the fair](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/16B-783.jpg?w=300)
Ground Plan, Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia
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Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978
![Receipt from privy cleaning by the Frankford Odorless Excavating Company, 1885](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DR_PrivyCleaningRcpt1885.jpg?w=300)
Privy Cleaning Receipt, 1885
![Cartoon depicting William Penn toasting the Devil with a glass of filtered water](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2004.012.0131_Typhoid_SpeedPartingGuest_1909_rev.jpg?w=300)
“Speeding the Parting Guest,” Feb. 25, 1909
![William Penn balks at drinking the "mixed drink" offered him: Schuylkill water, mixed with pollution from the upstream sources named. Editorial cartoon by Fred Morgan, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1899. One of a series of cartoons drawn by Morgan protesting the state of the city's drinking water and trying to encourage the passage of legislation authorizing the construction of a water filtration system.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/MixedDrink_Inq_1899-04-06_Morgan_crop2.jpg?w=300)
“A Decidedly Mixed Drink,” April 6, 1899
![Fairmount Gardens, with the Schuylkill Bridge. This 1839 engraving, published in London, shows a view of the South Garden from the walkways that brought visitors up the cliffside to the overlooks at the height of the reservoirs. The fountain used the pressure of the reservoirs and was a a delightful refreshment in hot weather, and a wonder at all times. One anachronistic element of this engraving is the Upper Ferry Bridge, which burned the year before the print was published. Harding’s Hotel, a popular resort, is at the western end of the bridge.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/05_southgarden_750w.jpg?w=300)