![Philadelphia harbor and rivers chart with points of interest](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/1912_Delaware_Schuylkill_Port_AEL-scaled.jpg?w=300)
![Philadelphia harbor and rivers chart with points of interest](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/1912_Delaware_Schuylkill_Port_AEL-scaled.jpg?w=300)
![Aqueduct carrying sewer over Creishem Creek, in the Wissahickon Valley, 1892](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Cresheim-Aqueduct-Sewer-CA-Misc148.jpg?w=300)
Cresheim Aqueduct
![](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/1872-20040570081-East-Park-reservoir.jpg?w=300)
Fairmount Park topographical map, showing East Park Reservoir, 1872
![](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Schuylkill_frombelowSouthStBr_color_PictAm_AEL-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873
![](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/FairmountWW_PictAm_AEL-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)
![](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/ChestnutStBr_Schuylkill_PictAm_AEL-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Chestnut Street Bridge, on the Schuylkill River (Picturesque America)
![Overhead image of the Fairmount Dam Fishway and the surrounding area, including the Art Museum, Boathouse Row and the Fairmount Water Works](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/fishwaydiagram.jpg?w=300)
Fairmount Dam Fish Ladder diagram
![An otter at the Fairmount Fishcam in 2005](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/otter5.jpg?w=300)
Otter at Fairmount Water Works fishcam, 2005
![Photo of a bearded man on a boat holding an American shad](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Joe_Amshad.jpg?w=300)
PWD’s Joe Perillo holds an American shad near the Fairmount Fishway
![Photo of four men standing on the banks of the Schuylkill River on the last day of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Interceptor-Last-Gasp-1956-2004.092.0262.jpg?w=300)
Last gasp of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956
![](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Schuylkill_frombelowSouthStBr_PictAm_AEL-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873
![Plan of Philadelphia, John Hills, May 30, 1796](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/graff02.04_Hills-map-1794.jpg?w=300)