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

A man in glasses listening to the street through stethoscopes (2012.002.0043)

Listening for leaks

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, 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

men standing around a trench with pipes seen crossing through it. there is a steam engine on wheels behind them to the left, and a building in the background on the right with a sign they says Hotel Abbey, T G Schmidt & Sons, Pilsner & Puritan Beer.

Pipeline being laid in Wissahickon Avenue

Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge at Manayunk, about 1895

Gritty and the Phanatic in Ida’s Floodwaters

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’

Wheeled robotic sewer crawler in sewer pipe

Still photo from a video sewer inspection, 2000

Receipt from privy cleaning by the Frankford Odorless Excavating Company, 1885

Privy Cleaning Receipt, 1885