Topics Streams & Rivers

Noll’s New Official Guide Map of Philadelphia, 1897

Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek

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

The Fairmount Dam Fishway sign, detailing how the fishway works and showing maps and images of fish migration and barriers along the Schuylkill River.

Fairmount Dam Fishway sign

An otter at the Fairmount Fishcam in 2005

Otter at Fairmount Water Works fishcam, 2005

Black-and-white etching of the Wire Bridge at Fairmount, 1873

Wire Bridge at Fairmount, with canal lock and esplanade, 1873

Wire Bridge at Fairmount

Schuylkill Navigation lock at Fairmount, 1873

Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873

Scenes on the Wissahickon

Scenes on the Wissahickon Creek (Picturesque America)

Dobson FLP

You would not have wanted to drink it: Philadelphia’s water supply in 1884

Plans and maps of the Pennypack Creek Watershed in Philadelphia

Hand-drawn and colored map depicting a river with streams branching off of it

Map Lovers’ Monday: 1891 Water Supply Plan