![“Fairmount Waterworks. From the forebay.” (From nature & on stone G. Lehman; Published by C.G. Childs & G. Lehman, 1833. Free Library of Philadelphia, Print & Picture Collection)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/05_FWW_castner-21_7_Crop_750w.jpg?w=300)
![“Fairmount Waterworks. From the forebay.” (From nature & on stone G. Lehman; Published by C.G. Childs & G. Lehman, 1833. Free Library of Philadelphia, Print & Picture Collection)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/05_FWW_castner-21_7_Crop_750w.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
![PWD water tech at the Philly Home Show, 1960](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20041050194_crop2-scaled.jpg?w=300)
PWD water tech at the Philly Home Show, 1960 (detail)
![Gillette Schuylkill mud cartoon](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/D.6c_FINAL_2004.012.0027R_Typhoid_1906_edit-scaled.jpg?w=300)
‘Gillette, All By Himself, Gets Fine New Idea On Germ Slaying’
![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
![Photo of a woman looking at a jar of raw, untreated sewage](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DR_SewageJar.jpg?w=300)
Jar of raw sewage before treatment, 2000
![Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River July 15, 1918](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Pier126-Sewer-AlleghenyAvenue-Swimmers-20040920280-1.jpg?w=300)
Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918
![Photo of Allegheny Avenue Sewer, Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Pier126-Sewer-AlleghenyAvenue-20040920279-1.jpg?w=300)
Allegheny Avenue Sewer at Pier 126, 1918
![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)