Places Philadelphia

Spring Garden water testing lab, 1901

Bureau of Water Spring Garden Testing Station, 1901

DeLaval Beauty Shots 6

Electric Pump Installations at Lardner’s Point Pumping Station

Fairmount, bird's eye view from Lemon Hill (detail)

Fairmount Park, bird’s eye view from Lemon Hill, detail

Sketch of aquarium in former FWW building, interior, ca. 1950

Philadelphia Water Department Fire Hydrant

Philadelphia Water Department Fire Hydrant

Diagram of Daily Pumpage for the year 1877 (2004.057.0487.001)

Diagram showing the daily pumpage for the year 1877

Sewage collection and disposal plan

Plan for the Collection, Purification and Disposal of the Sewage of the City of Philadelphia, 1912

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, 1869, Schuylkill flood, 1869

Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Schuylkill Flood 1869

Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1884

Baldwin Locomotive Works

Hands holding a silver river herring fish

River herring from the Schuylkill

PWD's Joe Perillo with a large striped bass

Joe Perillo with a large Schuylkill striper in 2015

Photo of a woman looking at a jar of raw, untreated sewage

Jar of raw sewage before treatment, 2000