Descriptions are repeated on the full-sized images, which can be accessed by clicking
the thumbnails. 1914_riverbottom_p138.jpg
Results
of examinations of samples of deposits taken from the bottom of the Delaware and
Schuylkill rivers at Philadelphia. From Page 138, Report on the Collection and
Treatment of Sewage of the City of Philadelphia, 1914. 20040350026.jpg
Swimmers
at Charles F. Felin & Co. lumber yard, Lombard St. at the Delaware River.
1912. [City Archives of Philadelphia]
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Swimmers and Sewer at Pier 126, Allegheny Avenue, Delaware River. July
15, 1918 [City Archives of Philadelphia]
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Bathing
Beach, Orthodox Street, Delaware River. Property of F. S. Walton Oil Co., Phila.,
Negative No. 651. [City Archives of Philadelphia]
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Delaware
River: Pleasant Hill Park, public beach, Torresdale. 1920
[City Archives of
Philadelphia]
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[Delaware
River dredging and filling of tidal marsh, 1958]. "This is the way the flow
of water and fill from the Delaware is shifted from one pipeline to another. Workmen
are shown operating the huge valve, with the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge shown in the
background. The silt taken from the river is used on the shore." [Philadelphia
Newspapers Inc. Library]
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Philadelphia.
1830 ca. [Painting by Thomas Birch. Delaware River, looking south, showing Smith
and Windmill Islands. Kynett Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art.] [Philadelphia
Newspapers Inc. Library]
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Dock
of Delaware River YC [Yacht Club], Torresdale, Pa. 1929. [Philadelphia Newspapers
Inc. Library]
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Chestnut Street Pier, 1950. Japan official and children tour port with
Director Hardenstine. On extreme right Director of Wharves, Docks and ferries
pointing out port to T. Hida, chief engineer planning section Port and Harbor
Bureau Ministry of Transportation, with children from Solis-Cohen Public School.
Hida is a transportation official from Tokyo, Japan. [Philadelphia Newspapers
Inc. Library]
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Among
those lolling on the "beach" along the Delaware River Sunday were (foreground,
from left) Mickey Kobel, of Olney; Deborah Rymarczuk, of Germantown; and JoAnne
Winczuk, of Johnstown; and (background, from left) Jimmy Riffitts, of Germantown;
and Kathleen Mullery, of West Oak Lane. 1969. [Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. Library]
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91. (H.S.
82) Marine railway and Sectional Dry Dock. I. Simpson & Neill, shipwrights
and proprietors, Christian Street and Delaware River, Philadelphia. Established
1838, dissolved 1861. [David Johnston Kennedy. Free Library Print & Picture
Collection]
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224.
T.W. Dyott's Glass Works at Kensington, on the Delaware, Philadelphia, 1831. [David
Johnston Kennedy. Free Library Print & Picture Collection]
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112. Union Glass Co.'s Works at Kensington on the Delaware in 1827. Philadelphia.
[David Johnston Kennedy. Free Library Print & Picture Collection]
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500.
Old Point House on the Delaware below the navy yard opposite to Gloucester Point
N. Jersey in 1846. In 1790 to 1825 this was the afternoon drive and resort of
the Wealthy citizens of Philadelphia, some of which boarded here during the hot
weather, General Washington among the number. Mr. Joseph Brown was Proprietor
of the above. [David Johnston Kennedy. Free Library Print & Picture Collection]
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