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Fire Underwriters’ Map, 1949
Wissahickon Pipe Aqueduct, Roxborough to Mt. Airy, 1868
Listening for leaks
Pipeline being laid in Wissahickon Avenue
Still photo from a video sewer inspection, 2000
Wooden Water Pipe, removed from Market Street, December 6, 1901
Bridge Street Draw, construction of piers, ca. 1896
“Philadelphia Underground,” Jan. 29, 1961
Centennial Exhibition situation plan, 1876
30th Street Sewer
69th St. Sewer and Culvert across Lansdowne AVe.
Bureau of Water, Cumberland, west of 13th Street, pipe line, 1907
Oak Lane Reservoir pipeline, 1904
State Street pipeline construction, 1904
Philadelphia Standard Distribution Valve
Showing the method of sinking the pipe on the bed of the river
Water Works Standpipe, 1853
Pipe Test, 1914
State Road triple pipeline construction, 1904
Torresdale Conduit work gang, 1906