![Mill Creek Sewer under construction. Several men standing beside a giant partially constructed sewer pipe.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Mill-Creek-Sewer_20040920079_300dpi.jpg?w=300)
![Mill Creek Sewer under construction. Several men standing beside a giant partially constructed sewer pipe.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Mill-Creek-Sewer_20040920079_300dpi.jpg?w=300)
![Black-and-white reproduction of the title page of an old periodical](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/day-in-the-mash-frontispiece.jpg?w=300)
Images from “A Day in the Ma’sh” by Maurice F. Egan, Scribner’s Monthly, July 1881
![Black-and-white image of a man in a boat with a long pole](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/day-in-the-mash-the-pusher.jpg?w=300)
A Day in the Ma’sh – A Pusher
![Black-and-white image of two men in a boat with guns](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/day-in-the-mash-rail-shooting.jpg?w=300)
A Day in the Ma’sh – Rail-Shooting
![Black and white photo of a man wearing a hat and standing on a bridge with his arm on a post](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/frankford-bridges-CA-20040330242.jpg?w=300)
Wood truss drawbridge, Orthodox Street over Frankford Creek, 1899 [Detail]
![Black and white photo of several men in the foreground, some wearing hats, and a few others standing behind them on a wooden bridge](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330125.jpg?w=300)
Bridge Street, intermediate pier, ca. 1896 [Detail]
![Black and white image of several workmen and many pieces of wooden timber](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330124.jpg?w=300)
Bridge Street Draw, intermediate pier, ca. 1896 [detail]
![Black and white photo shows several workmen on a wooden structure](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330123.jpg?w=300)
Bridge Street Draw, intermediate pier, ca. 1896
![Black and white photo of two men facing the camera and several facing away while standing and sitting on a board](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330120.jpg?w=300)
Bridge Street Draw, construction of piers, ca. 1896
![Black and white photo of men on a wooden bridge outcropping](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330118.jpg?w=300)
Bridge Street Draw, Cofferdam, ca 1896 [Detail]
![Black and white photo of a man checking his watch in front of a creek with construction around it](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330116.jpg?w=300)
Bridge Street Draw, looking north, ca. 1896
![](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330115.jpg?w=300)