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Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978
![Fairmount Water Works, by W. H. Bartlett, 1839. This engraving from an 1839 painting by William Bartlett shows the porch added to the Engine House about 1835 and the two gazebos built at the same time, all added to welcome visitors to the Water Works and a new saloon, or restaurant, in the Engine House. The powerful jet of water rising from the fountain in the South Garden, fed by a dedicated pipe under the full pressure of the reservoir, was depicted against the green foliage on the west slope of Faire Mount, near the east end of the Colossus. A barge is making its way downstream through the canal, headed under the Colossus to the busy port city of Philadelphia.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/05_Bartlett_FWW_1839_crop_750w.jpg?w=300)
Fairmount Water Works, W.H. Bartlett, 1839
![“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 Water Works from the forebay, 1833
![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
![A section of wooden water pipe, long out of service, removed from a Philadelphia street in 1901. It had been installed about 1801.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/WoodenPipe-1801-1901.jpg?w=300)
Wooden Water Pipe, removed from Market Street, December 6, 1901
![Centre Square Engine House, location of one of two steam engines used in the city’s original water system. Engraving by Birch.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/centre-square-engine-house.jpg?w=300)
Centre Square Engine House, ca. 1807
![Black and white photo of a man wearing a hat and standing on a bridge with his arm on a post](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/frankford-bridges-CA-20040330242.jpg?w=300)
Wood truss drawbridge, Orthodox Street over Frankford Creek, 1899 [Detail]
![Black and white photo of two men facing the camera and several facing away while standing and sitting on a board](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330120.jpg?w=300)
Bridge Street Draw, construction of piers, ca. 1896
![Black and white photo of men on a wooden bridge outcropping](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330118.jpg?w=300)
Bridge Street Draw, Cofferdam, ca 1896 [Detail]
![Black and white photo of a man checking his watch in front of a creek with construction around it](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330116.jpg?w=300)
Bridge Street Draw, looking north, ca. 1896
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