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

Southwest Sewage Treatment Plant under construction, 1949 (from Water & Sewer Course Module 7)

Southwest Sewage Treatment Plant under construction, 1949

Hopkins Darby 1877 map

Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 1877

History of Belfield (1934)

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, Drawings of Intake Basin

Colored print showin all the booths, restaurants and other amenities of the fair

Ground Plan, Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia

Andorra Run aka Wise’s Mill Run

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

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, portrait by Filippo Costaggini, 1880

Centre Square Water Works, Latrobe Plans, 1799

Visionary planning report for Philadelphia region, 1928

The Water Supply Problem of Philadelphia, 1899