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Water History: Repurposing Old Infrastructure
Sandy Run Watershed and the Holmesburg Water Works
Roberts Mill, Wingohocking Creek, 1871
Map of Historic Dock Creek
Drainage area plan, early 19th century
Pine Street sewer plan, 1848
Noll’s New Official Guide Map of Philadelphia, 1897
Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek
Schuylkill River at Rockland Landing (Picturesque America)
Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.
History of Belfield (1934)
Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978
Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883
Fairmount Water Works from the forebay, 1833
Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1793
“Town street scavengers from life,” Kollner, 1844
Delaware River at Arch Street from the New Jersey side, 1914
Drawing Dock Creek (2008)
Bridge Street Draw, southeast corner property, June 12, 1896
Car 2615, Brill, 1909, Brill Curtis trucks
Ash car 2622, later P-13 and W-31
Car 5615, later P-16 and the second D-31, Brill, 1911, Curtis C-1112 trucks
State House Garden, Philadelphia, 1800
Congress Hall and New Theatre in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
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