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

Black-and-white photo of privies, waterless wells used to collect human waste

Privies, Emerald Street, 1919

Two bottles of water from a river, one dark with pollution and one clear after filtration

Water Before and After Roxborough

1902 photo of Upper Roxborough Filter beds under construction

Upper Roxborough Filter Bed Construction, 1902

Drawing from an advertisement for in-home water filters from the McConnell Germ-Proof Filter Company. Depicts a skull and various germs and bacteria.

McConnell Germ-Proof Filters ad (crop)