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![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)
Fairmount Gardens with the Schuylkill Bridge, 1839
![Black-and-white reproduction of the title page of an old periodical](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/day-in-the-mash-frontispiece.jpg?w=300)
Images from “A Day in the Ma’sh” by Maurice F. Egan, Scribner’s Monthly, July 1881
View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827
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Penn’s Treaty with the Indians (Watson’s Annals)
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Penn landing at Chester (Watson’s Annals)
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Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)
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