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Delaware River
Map Lover’s Monday: Looking for Cleaner Water
Map Lovers’ Monday: Schuylkill River from Wissahickon Creek to Norristown, 1913
Annual reports and other documents relating to Philadelphia’s water supply system, 1796-1941
Map of Philadelphia Harbor, Delaware and Schuylkill, 1912
Cresheim Aqueduct
Pine Street sewer plan, 1848
Fairmount Park topographical map, showing East Park Reservoir, 1872
Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873
Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)
Chestnut Street Bridge, on the Schuylkill River (Picturesque America)
Noll’s New Official Guide Map of Philadelphia, 1897
Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek
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
Last gasp of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956
Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873
Thomas Mill Covered Bridge over Wissahickon Creek (Picturesque America)
You would not have wanted to drink it: Philadelphia’s water supply in 1884
Plans and maps of the Pennypack Creek Watershed in Philadelphia
Wissahickon Pipe Aqueduct, Roxborough to Mt. Airy, 1868
Plan of Philadelphia, John Hills, 1796
Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.
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