Two Frankford Creek Bridges, 1896-99
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Between 1896 and 1899 two bridges over Frankford Creek, at Bridge Street and Orthodox Street, were rebuilt to facilitate the passage of small boats and barges up and down the creek. This work might have been in response to an 1882 Army Corps of Engineers report, calling for dredging and other improvements to the creek for navigation purposes. (To see this report, click here. Other related material on the history of Frankford Creek can be found in the Philly H2O Archives.)
The photographs here come from an uncatalogued album of Public Works photos at City Archives. They were shot on slide film, which was canned at 2212 dpi, with the resulting images downsized for inclusion here. The image file names indicate the ID number they have been assigned in the Philadelphia Water Department Historical Catalogue, which as of April 2006 includes more than 12,000 photographs, publications and other materials dating from 1798 to the present.
The History of Philadelphia's Watersheds and Sewers
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Philadelphia Water Department
