Places Pennsylvania

Water Bureau Newspaper Scrapbook, 1942-1952

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.

“A Decidedly Mixed Drink,” April 6, 1899

Sewer Demand Taken to City Hall, 7/25/32

Goal (jail) in Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1800

Congress Hall and New Theatre in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Samuel H. Ashbridge, former Mayor of Philadelphia

Portrait of Samuel H. Ashbridge, Mayor

Picture of John Trautwine, Jr.

Philadelphia Water Department chief engineer John Trautwine Jr., 1890s

City officials tour new interceptor sewer, 1953