Topics Streams & Rivers

A Brief History of Water in Northwest Philadelphia

Two views on the water supply, 1939

High Water: An Informal History of Flooding in Philadelphia

Fairmount Park topographical map, showing East Park Reservoir, 1872

Navy Yard on the Delaware River (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)

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

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Centre Square Water Works, Frederick Graff, Sr. Plans, 1799

Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978

Birkinbine Schuylkill Hydrographical Survey 1861-66

Schuylkill River Hydrographical Survey 1861-66 by H. P. M. Birkinbine