Topics Infrastructure

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

Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)

Overhead image of the Fairmount Dam Fishway and the surrounding area, including the Art Museum, Boathouse Row and the Fairmount Water Works

Fairmount Dam Fish Ladder diagram

Photo of four men standing on the banks of the Schuylkill River on the last day of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956

Last gasp of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956

Plan of Philadelphia, John Hills, May 30, 1796

Plan of Philadelphia, John Hills, 1796

Early photographs of Fairmount and vicinity, 1848

Black-and-white diagram showing streets and the Little Tacony Creek

Frankford Creek Watershed: A historical overview of the Philadelphia section

Dobson FLP

Requiem for a stream: A brief history of Dobson’s Run

Spring Garden Northern Liberties, or Schuylkill Works (1844)

Fairmount Water Powered Works Expansion (1859 to 1861)

Fairmount Water Turbine Wheels (1851)

Fairmount Water Powered Water Works (1822)