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Rivers & Creeks
Delaware River
Schuylkill River above Belmont (Picturesque America)
Chestnut Street Bridge, on the Schuylkill River (Picturesque America)
Fairmount Dam Fish Ladder diagram
Fairmount Dam Fishway sign
Otter at Fairmount Water Works fishcam, 2005
PWD’s Joe Perillo holds an American shad near the Fairmount Fishway
Wire Bridge at Fairmount, with canal lock and esplanade, 1873
Schuylkill Navigation lock at Fairmount, 1873
Down Under, Part 2: Beaver Creek as it appears today
Overbrook, as it was
Cobbs Creek in the Days of the Old Powder Mill
Schuylkill River Harbor Police Report, 1884
Twenty-fourth Ward (or West Philadelphia) Works, 1855
Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883
Thomas Run sewer outlet at Cobbs Creek
Thomas Run sewer outlet during construction
Plan of the City of Philadelphia and Adjoining Districts, 1830
Outline Map of the County and City of Philadelphia and Vicinity, 1883
“Mill Creek Is Not All Bad,” Inquirer, Aug. 27, 1961
150 May Have to Abandon Homes, Aug. 10, 1952 (p. 2)
69th St. Sewer and Culvert across Lansdowne AVe.
View from the Inclined Plane near Philadelphia, 1838
Porous paving on basketball court