Neighborhoods Fairmount Park

Fairmount Water Works and the Lemon Hill Observatory

Fairmount Water Works: The Surprising History of an American Landmark

Fairmount Water Works in High Resolution

Map Lovers’ Monday: Philadelphia in 1957, according to the Pennsy

Philadelphia from Belmont, West Park (Picturesque America)

Schuylkill River above Belmont (Picturesque America)

Appletons' Journal Schuylkill, 1869

Fairmount and Schuylkill, Appletons’ Journal, 1869

Black-and-white etching of the Wire Bridge at Fairmount, 1873

Wire Bridge at Fairmount, with canal lock and esplanade (Picturesque America)

Wire Bridge at Fairmount

Schuylkill Navigation lock at Fairmount (Picturesque America)

Schuylkill River at Rockland Landing (Picturesque America)

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

Early photographs of Fairmount and vicinity, 1848