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Water History: Making It Safe to Drink
Map of Philadelphia Harbor, Delaware and Schuylkill, 1912
Old U. S. Navy Yard
Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873
Coal Depot, Richmond, on the Delaware (Picturesque America)
Chestnut Street Bridge, on the Schuylkill River (Picturesque America)
Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873
Two Frankford Creek Bridges, 1896-1899
Ground Plan, Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia
Typhoid fever deaths, 1860-1936
Typhoid bacteria diagram, 1905
Fairmount and vicinity, 1839
Steam engine drawing, Frederick Graff Sr., 1815
Army Corps of Engineers 1882 Report on Navigation in Frankford Creek
1903 Proceedings of the Engineers’ Club title page
Lab tech, water cleaning demo, Philly Home Show, 1960
Bureau of Water Spring Garden Testing Station, 1901
Engine House of the Belmont Works
Laboratory Alkalinity test, ca. 1943
River herring from the Schuylkill
Jar of raw sewage before treatment, 2000
Plan for the Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Sewage, 1914
Outside Sprinkling Filters, Spring Garden Sewage Experiment Station, 1911