![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
![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
![Oak Lane Reservoir pipeline, 1904](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/D.4a_FINAL_1986.002.1635_crop-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Oak Lane Reservoir pipeline, 1904
![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
![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)
State Road triple pipeline construction, 1904
![Eleven men in a work gang plug leaks in a tunnel, the Torresdale Conduit](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/D.5_FINAL_1986.002.2546_crop.jpg?w=300)