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Old U. S. Navy Yard
Navy Yard on the Delaware River (Picturesque America)
Wissahickon Pipe Aqueduct, Roxborough to Mt. Airy, 1868
Philadelphia Navy Yard, July 1872
Listening for leaks
Ground Plan, Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia
Pipeline being laid in Wissahickon Avenue
Wooden Water Pipe, removed from Market Street, December 6, 1901
Battle of Germantown map, 1777
Bridge Street Draw, construction of piers, ca. 1896
Preparation for War to Defend Commerce
1779 Revolutionary War-era map of Philadelphia and environs
30th Street Sewer
69th St. Sewer and Culvert across Lansdowne AVe.
Bureau of Water, Cumberland, west of 13th Street, pipe line, 1907
Oak Lane Reservoir pipeline, 1904
State Street pipeline construction, 1904
Showing the method of sinking the pipe on the bed of the river
Water Works Standpipe, 1853
Pipe Test, 1914
State Road triple pipeline construction, 1904
Torresdale Conduit work gang, 1906