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Historic resources from our archives - images, maps, documents, and more.

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Receipt from privy cleaning by the Frankford Odorless Excavating Company, 1885

Privy Cleaning Receipt, 1885

Mill Creek Sewer under construction. Several men standing beside a giant partially constructed sewer pipe.

Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883

International Exhibition situation plan, 1876

Centennial Exhibition situation plan, 1876

30th Street Sewer

30th Street Sewer

69th St. Sewer and Culvert across Lansdowne

69th St. Sewer and Culvert across Lansdowne AVe.

Outhouse over Schuylkill near Pottstown

Outhouse over the Schuylkill near Pottstown

Sewage collection and disposal plan

Plan for the Collection, Purification and Disposal of the Sewage of the City of Philadelphia, 1912