![Photograph of Roberts Mill on Wingohocking Creek in Germantown, built in the late 17th century. (Photograph by J. C. Browne, 1871. Castner Collection/Free Library of Philadelphia)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/RobertsMill-Wingohocking-20040210200.jpg?w=300)
![Photograph of Roberts Mill on Wingohocking Creek in Germantown, built in the late 17th century. (Photograph by J. C. Browne, 1871. Castner Collection/Free Library of Philadelphia)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/RobertsMill-Wingohocking-20040210200.jpg?w=300)
![Old U. S. Navy Yard](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2016.002.0057-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Old U. S. Navy Yard
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Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873
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Philadelphia from Belmont, West Park (Picturesque America)
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Schuylkill River above Belmont (Picturesque America)
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Coal Depot, Richmond, on the Delaware (Picturesque America)
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Navy Yard on the Delaware River (Picturesque America)
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Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)
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Chestnut Street Bridge, on the Schuylkill River (Picturesque America)
![Appletons' Journal Schuylkill, 1869](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2008.001.0021-AppletonSchuylkill1869_edit.jpg?w=300)
Fairmount and Schuylkill, Appletons’ Journal, 1869
![Wire Bridge at Fairmount](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/WireBridge_FairmountWW_Schuylkill_PictAm_AEL-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Schuylkill Navigation lock at Fairmount, 1873
![Schuylkill River at Landsdowne](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Schuylkill_ViewfromLansdowne_PictAm_AEL-scaled.jpg?w=300)