Water
History
PHL
Show/Hide Menu
Items
Articles
Topics
About
Blog
Show/Hide Search
Search!
Items
Images, maps, documents, objects, whatever.
Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800
PWD’s Jay Cruz with a striped bass
Schuylkill River at Rockland Landing (Picturesque America)
Map Showing Districts, Boroughs & Townships Incorporated in Consolidation of Philadelphia in 1854
Gritty and the Phanatic in Ida’s Floodwaters
Bill for Privy Cleaning, 1869
A Day in the Ma’sh – At CLXIV Canal Boat St.
Congress Hall and New Theatre in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Library and Surgeon’s Hall in Fifth Street, Philadelphia, 1800
Bank of the United States, in Third Street, Philadelphia
The City and Port of Philadelphia on the River Delaware from Kensington, 1800
“Another reservoir site chosen,” April 26, 1883
Portrait of Samuel H. Ashbridge, Mayor
State Sen. James P. McNichol
Philadelphia Water Department chief engineer John Trautwine Jr., 1890s
The Fairmount Quadrilles, 1836
Schuylkill steamship excursions ad, 1852
Race Bridge, Fairmount Water Works, 1834
Philadelphia World’s Greatest Work Shop 1930
The Shield passing the site of Philadelphia (Watson’s Annals)
Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)
City officials tour new interceptor sewer, 1953