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

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

Privy Cleaning Receipt, 1885

1903 Engineers' Club Report title page

1903 Proceedings of the Engineers’ Club title page

State Street pipeline construction

State Street pipeline construction, 1904

Typical House Drainage, Combined and Separate Systems (2008.001.0032)

Typical house drainage

A list of rules governing the sanitary maintenance of privy vaults in Philadelphia in 1915

Privy Regulations

Black-and-white photo of privies, waterless wells used to collect human waste

Privies, Emerald Street, 1919