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Historic resources from our archives - images, maps, documents, and more.

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part 1, with Adam Levine

Rebirth of the Rivers: Water History Video 3

Repurposing Old Infrastructure: Water History Video 5

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part II, with Adam Levine

“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)

Fairmount Water Works from the forebay, 1833

Ornate black-and-white title page to the 1836 sheet music for The Fairmount Quadrilles

The Fairmount Quadrilles, 1836

Pegg's Run

Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)

PWD's Lance Butler holds a flathead catfish caught in the Schuylkill River

PWD’s Lance Butler with an invasive flathead catfish

PWD's Joe Perillo with a large striped bass

Joe Perillo with a large Schuylkill striper in 2015

Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River July 15, 1918

Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918

Photo of Allegheny Avenue Sewer, Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918

Allegheny Avenue Sewer at Pier 126, 1918