Places Philadelphia

Water Bureau Newspaper Scrapbook, 1942-1952

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)

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

Bottled vs. Tap in 1906

Wooden Pipes in Philadelphia

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

Visionary planning report for Philadelphia region, 1928

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’

Diagram showing the Philadelphia Water Department's water treatment process

PWD Drinking Water Treatment diagram

Diagram and description of the typhoid bacteria

Typhoid bacteria diagram, 1905

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