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“Philadelphie,” Bird’s Eye View, 1855
![Penn's Treaty with the Lenape](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Penn_Treaty_WAnnals_frontspce_v2_AEL.jpg?w=300)
Penn’s Treaty with the Indians (Watson’s Annals)
![Dock Creek and Blue Anchor Inn](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DOckCreek_Penn_BlueAnchor-WAnnals_p127v1_AEL.jpg?w=300)
Penn Landing at Blue Anchor, from Watson’s Annals
![Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River July 15, 1918](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Pier126-Sewer-AlleghenyAvenue-Swimmers-20040920280-1.jpg?w=300)
Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918
![Photo of Allegheny Avenue Sewer, Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Pier126-Sewer-AlleghenyAvenue-20040920279-1.jpg?w=300)
Allegheny Avenue Sewer at Pier 126, 1918
![Photo of a work crew constructing a sewer in Rock Run, Tacony Creek, Philadelphia](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DR_RockRun19223.jpg?w=300)
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