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Water History: Making It Safe to Drink
Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800
Ground Plan, Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia
Typhoid fever deaths, 1860-1936
Typhoid bacteria diagram, 1905
Fairmount Water Works from the forebay, 1833
Fairmount Water Works and the Schuylkill River, 1838
Fairmount and vicinity, 1839
Steam engine drawing, Frederick Graff Sr., 1815
Fourth of July, Centre Square, ca. 1812
Wooden Water Pipe, removed from Market Street, December 6, 1901
Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1793
“Town street scavengers from life,” Kollner, 1844
Southeast Corner of Third and Market, Philadelphia
London after the Great Fire, 1666
Treaty of Penn with Indians
Images from “A Day in the Ma’sh” by Maurice F. Egan, Scribner’s Monthly, July 1881
A Day in the Ma’sh – Rail-Shooting
A Day in the Ma’sh – Bell Snicklin’
Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 5
Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 4
Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 3
Logan Demanding Flood Relief, 8/18/38
Frankford Creek Overflows, 11/1/32
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