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

Schuylkill River watershed, population in 1904

Aqueduct carrying sewer over Creishem Creek, in the Wissahickon Valley, 1892

Cresheim Aqueduct

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.

Pipeline being laid in Wissahickon Avenue

Diagram and description of the typhoid bacteria

Typhoid bacteria diagram, 1905

A section of wooden water pipe, long out of service, removed from a Philadelphia street in 1901. It had been installed about 1801.

Wooden Water Pipe, removed from Market Street, December 6, 1901

Pumping stations after Philadelphia's incorporation, 1854

Main Pumping Stations for Philadelphia Drinking Water

Black-and-white photo of men, horses and a cart inside of a barn-like structure

Ash dumping house, 2nd floor, 15th and Wood St.

Black-and-white image of a rail car with its door open

Ash car 2622, later P-13 and W-31

Black-and-white image shows a trolley car emerging from a building with men standing alongside

Ash car 2618, later P-9 and W-29, PRT, 1908, Curtis C-1112 trucks

1903 Engineers' Club Report title page

1903 Proceedings of the Engineers’ Club title page

Philadelphia the Manufacturing and Industrial Capital map, 1906

Did Penn Sell Town Lots Under Water?

“Did Penn Sell Town Lots Under Water?”