Places Pennsylvania

Early visions of Philadelphia’s airport

Report on channelization of Frankford Creek for flood control (1947)

Down Under, Part 2: Beaver Creek as it appears today

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

Wooden Pipes in Philadelphia

Cape May Lighthouse, from Wikipedia, 2023

Lighthouses along the Delaware, 1913

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

Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978

Wheeled robotic sewer crawler in sewer pipe

Still photo from a video sewer inspection, 2000

Pen and ink drawing of the proposed Delaware Seventh Street Sewer

Plan and profile of proposed Delaware Seventh St. Sewer, 1850

1830 plan for the Pine Street Sewer

Plan of Pine Street Sewer, 1830

Fairmount Water Works, by W. H. Bartlett, 1839. This engraving from an 1839 painting by William Bartlett shows the porch added to the Engine House about 1835 and the two gazebos built at the same time, all added to welcome visitors to the Water Works and a new saloon, or restaurant, in the Engine House. The powerful jet of water rising from the fountain in the South Garden, fed by a dedicated pipe under the full pressure of the reservoir, was depicted against the green foliage on the west slope of Faire Mount, near the east end of the Colossus. A barge is making its way downstream through the canal, headed under the Colossus to the busy port city of Philadelphia.

Fairmount Water Works, W.H. Bartlett, 1839