![Thomas Meehan](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/C.5d_FINAL_Thomas-Meehan_edit.jpg?w=300)
![Thomas Meehan](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/C.5d_FINAL_Thomas-Meehan_edit.jpg?w=300)
![William Penn balks at drinking the "mixed drink" offered him: Schuylkill water, mixed with pollution from the upstream sources named. Editorial cartoon by Fred Morgan, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1899. One of a series of cartoons drawn by Morgan protesting the state of the city's drinking water and trying to encourage the passage of legislation authorizing the construction of a water filtration system.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/MixedDrink_Inq_1899-04-06_Morgan_crop2.jpg?w=300)
“A Decidedly Mixed Drink,” April 6, 1899
![Black-and-white reproduction of the title page of an old periodical](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/day-in-the-mash-frontispiece.jpg?w=300)
Images from “A Day in the Ma’sh” by Maurice F. Egan, Scribner’s Monthly, July 1881
![Black-and-white image of a covered dock slanting down to the water with a house in front of it](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/day-in-the-mash-still-useful.jpg?w=300)
A Day in the Ma’sh – Still Useful
![Black-and-white image showing three small houses, some small boats, weeds, and trees](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/day-in-the-mash-low-tide.jpg?w=300)
A Day in the Ma’sh – Low Tide
![Black-and-white drawing of two cabins with a wooden walkway in front](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/day-in-the-mash-at-CLXIV-canal-boat-st..jpg?w=300)
A Day in the Ma’sh – At CLXIV Canal Boat St.
![Black-and-white drawing of the interior of a humble cabin](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/day-in-the-mash-old-country-home.jpg?w=300)
A Day in the Ma’sh – In The Old Cabin Home
![Black-and-white image of a man in a boat with a long pole](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/day-in-the-mash-the-pusher.jpg?w=300)
A Day in the Ma’sh – A Pusher
![Black-and-white reproduction of the title page of an old periodical](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/day-in-the-mash-frontispiece.jpg?w=300)
A Day in the Ma’sh – Frontispiece
![Black and white photo of a man wearing a hat and standing on a bridge with his arm on a post](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/frankford-bridges-CA-20040330242.jpg?w=300)
Wood truss drawbridge, Orthodox Street over Frankford Creek, 1899 [Detail]
![Black and white photo of two men facing the camera and several facing away while standing and sitting on a board](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330120.jpg?w=300)
Bridge Street Draw, construction of piers, ca. 1896
![Black and white photo of men on a wooden bridge outcropping](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330118.jpg?w=300)