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High Water: Flooding in Philadelphia

Black-and-white photograph depicts a large brick sewer tube lying on a barren landscape

Streams, islands, and ferries of early Philadelphia

Black-and-white image of a body of water with trees and shoreline in the far distance

Delaware River at Arch Street from the New Jersey side, 1914

The City and Port of Philadelphia on the River Delaware from Kensington, 1800

Pegg's Run

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