Places Philadelphia

Upper Roxborough filter beds

Upper Roxborough filter beds under construction, July 1902

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

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

Pegg's Run

Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)

PWD's Joe Perillo with a large striped bass

Joe Perillo with a large Schuylkill striper in 2015

Six people and dozens of sandbags performing a load test on a concrete pipe, 1914

Pipe Test, 1914

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

Jar of raw sewage before treatment, 2000

Centerfold of 1955 brochure depicting the Southeast Sewage Treatment Works

Southeast Sewage Treatment Works diagram, 1955

Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River July 15, 1918

Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918

Photo of Allegheny Avenue Sewer, Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918

Allegheny Avenue Sewer at Pier 126, 1918