Places Pennsylvania

City of Reading map, 1872

Street map of Reading, Pennsylvania, 1872

Wire Bridge at Fairmount

Schuylkill Navigation lock at Fairmount (Picturesque America)

Scenes on the Wissahickon

Scenes on the Wissahickon Creek (Picturesque America)

Wissahickon near Paper Mill Bridge, 1873

Wissahickon Creek near the Paper Mill Bridge (Picturesque America)

Drive Along the Wissahickon

Drive along the Wissahickon Creek Vallley (Picturesque America)

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

Map Lovers’ Monday: 1891 Water Supply Plan

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

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

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

Schuylkill Navigation Company Scrapbook

Black-and-white image of an ornately lettered document with a decorative border

Images from ‘The Water Supply of the City of Philadelphia by a proposed Aqueduct from Norristown Dam’