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Philadelphia Water Department
Last gasp of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956
Diagram from sewage treatment plan for Philadelphia, 1912
Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978
Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883
“A Decidedly Mixed Drink,” April 6, 1899
Bill for Privy Cleaning, 1869
Captain Sewer and Michael Nutter, 1998
30th Street Sewer
‘Gillette, All By Himself, Gets Fine New Idea On Germ Slaying’
State Street pipeline construction, 1904
Belmont Filters construction, 1903
Upper Roxborough filter beds under construction, July 1902
Rudolph Hering
Outhouse over the Schuylkill near Pottstown
Standard Philadelphia (B) Hydrant
Plan for the Collection, Purification and Disposal of the Sewage of the City of Philadelphia, 1912
Typical house drainage
Laboratory Alkalinity test, ca. 1943
Wastewater Treatment Process diagram
Northeast Sewage Plant opening, 1951
Devereaux Street Sewer, Philadelphia magazine, 1911
Water Before and After Roxborough
Upper Roxborough Filter Bed Construction, 1902