![men standing around a trench with pipes seen crossing through it. there is a steam engine on wheels behind them to the left, and a building in the background on the right with a sign they says Hotel Abbey, T G Schmidt & Sons, Pilsner & Puritan Beer.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/9548198930_c3ff205628_o-scaled.jpg?w=300)
![men standing around a trench with pipes seen crossing through it. there is a steam engine on wheels behind them to the left, and a building in the background on the right with a sign they says Hotel Abbey, T G Schmidt & Sons, Pilsner & Puritan Beer.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/9548198930_c3ff205628_o-scaled.jpg?w=300)
![A section of wooden water pipe, long out of service, removed from a Philadelphia street in 1901. It had been installed about 1801.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/WoodenPipe-1801-1901.jpg?w=300)
Wooden Water Pipe, removed from Market Street, December 6, 1901
![Torresdale Conduit work gang, 1906](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/D.5_FINAL_1986.002.2546_crop-1-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Torresdale Conduit work gang, 12/18/1906
![Cumberland Street pipeline, 1907](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/D.4b_FINAL_1986.002.2491_crop-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Bureau of Water, Cumberland, west of 13th Street, pipe line, 1907
![State Street pipeline construction](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/D.3ab_FINAL_1986.002.1496-97.jpg?w=300)
State Street pipeline construction, 1904
![A.C. Abbott, MD](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/C.5f_FINAL_Abbott_Photo_UPaArchives_edit.jpg?w=300)
A.C. Abbott, MD
![Samuel H. Ashbridge, former Mayor of Philadelphia](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/C.5e_FINAL_Samuel-h-Ashbridge_edit.jpg?w=300)
Portrait of Samuel H. Ashbridge, Mayor
![State Sen James P. McNichol, 1905-1916](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/C.5c_FINAL_James-McNichol_edit.jpg?w=300)
State Sen. James P. McNichol
![Nine visiting nurses ready for work, ca. 1909](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/B.5_FINAL_Nurses_6_edit_crop.jpg?w=300)
Nine visiting nurses ready for work, ca. 1909
![Immigrant family, ca. 1900](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/A.5a_FINAL_Nurses_15-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Immigrant family, ca. 1900, nurse in black
![Aramingo Sewer tunnel, workmen, pilings, machinery, Beach St. Bridge in distance](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/27.jpg?w=300)
A general view of the sewer from the river’s end looking toward the Beach St. Bridge, February 14, 1902
![Two black-and-white photographs of pipeline construction on State Road. Depicted are a group of people, trees, buildings, a fire hydrant and a grid of boards over the pipes.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/StateRoad_19860021496_97.jpg?w=300)