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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 workers in a pit with a sewer opening behind them and text

Frankford Creek: Sad History of an Urban Stream title page

Frankford Creek Overflows, 11/1/32

Reproduction of a long newspaper clipping showing headlines and text

In The Storm’s Track, Philadelphia Record, 1882-09-25