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

Centre Square Water Works, Drawings of Intake Basin

Centre Square Water Works, Frederick Graff, Sr. Plans, 1799

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, portrait by Filippo Costaggini, 1880

Centre Square Water Works, Latrobe Plans, 1799

Bird's eye color view of reservoirs, green areas of foliage, pink roads and blue water, with a dam prominent

Fairmount and vicinity, 1839

Centre Square Engine House, location of one of two steam engines used in the city’s original water system. Engraving by Birch.

Centre Square Engine House, ca. 1807

DeLaval Beauty Shots 6

Electric Pump Installations at Lardner’s Point Pumping Station

New Mill House at Fairmount (2008.001.0046)

New Mill House at Fairmount

The Pennypack Sewage Treatment Works in 1914

Pennypack Sewage Treatment Works, 1914

Photo of a work crew constructing a sewer in Rock Run, Tacony Creek, Philadelphia

Sewer construction, Rock Run, 1922