Places Pennsylvania

Water Bureau Newspaper Scrapbook, 1942-1952

Map Lovers’ Monday: AQUA, in the beginning

Map Lover’s Monday: Looking for Cleaner Water

Map Lover’s Monday: Fairmount Park, 1869

Photograph of Roberts Mill on Wingohocking Creek in Germantown, built in the late 17th century. (Photograph by J. C. Browne, 1871. Castner Collection/Free Library of Philadelphia)

Roberts Mill, Wingohocking Creek, 1871

Wire Bridge at Fairmount

Schuylkill Navigation lock at Fairmount (Picturesque America)

Hand-drawn and colored map depicting a river with streams branching off of it

Map Lovers’ Monday: 1891 Water Supply Plan

Image shows three bottles of water, one clear, one dark and one with sediment floating in it.

Bottled vs. Tap in 1906

Typhoid Fever and sewage tainted drinking water: An 1889 report from the Philadelphia Board of Health

Wooden Pipes in Philadelphia

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

Visionary planning report for Philadelphia region, 1928