Image Lithograph

Wissahickon Pipe Aqueduct, Roxborough to Mt. Airy, 1868

Date
  • Created

Pipe aqueduct across the valley of the Wissahickon for conveying water from the Roxborough to the Mount Airy Reservoir. designed by Fred[rick] Graff [Jr.], Chief Engineer, Water Department, June 10, 1868. Details of construction by John W. Murphey, contractor for erection. Duval & Hunter, Phila. [lithographers]. Bound in "Annual Report of the Chief Engineer of the Water Department of the City of Philadelphia. Presented to councils February 16, 1871."

Item Type
Temporal Coverage
  • (Known)
Catalog Number

2004.057.0074.004

Catalog Number

2008.001.0036

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