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

Upper Roxborough filter beds

Upper Roxborough filter beds under construction, July 1902

Outhouse over Schuylkill near Pottstown

Outhouse over the Schuylkill near Pottstown

Laying the Main (2004.057.0074.007)

Commencement of laying the main on the East side of the River, 1871

New Mill House at Fairmount (2008.001.0046)

New Mill House at Fairmount

Typical House Drainage, Combined and Separate Systems (2008.001.0032)

Typical house drainage

Fountain and stand-pipe, 1875 (2004.007.0006)

Fairmount Water Works, with “Nymph and Bittern” fountain and standpipe, 1875

Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1884

Baldwin Locomotive Works

Tinted image of a single-arch bridge over a river with landscape in the distance

Lancaster/Schuylkill Bridge (Upper Ferry Bridge)

Race Bridge, Fair Mount Water Works, 1834 (Graff05.63)

Race Bridge, Fairmount Water Works, 1834

View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827

City officials tour new interceptor sewer, 1953

Devereaux Street Sewer on the cover of Philadelphia magazine, 1911

Devereaux Street Sewer, Philadelphia magazine, 1911