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

Play Ball! Meet the 1960 PWD Softball Team

Frankford Pumping Station, ca. 1900

Frankford Pumping Station Plans and Diagrams, 1870s

Anglers Club member Louis Cook with a 16lb mirror carp caught in Wissahickon Creek

Photos from the Philadelphia Anglers’ Club

Black and white photo of a man wearing a hat and standing on a bridge with his arm on a post

Two Frankford Creek Bridges, 1896-1899

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

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, portrait by Filippo Costaggini, 1880

Centre Square Water Works, Latrobe Plans, 1799

Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978

Black-and-white image of an ornately lettered document with a decorative border

Images from ‘The Water Supply of the City of Philadelphia by a proposed Aqueduct from Norristown Dam’

Black and white photo of a worker with darker skin, wearing protective clothing, gloves, and a hard hat with the number 25 on the front, reaching up out of a sewer manhole, only head, shoulders, and left arm visible.

Sewer Inspections: Vintage Images