Subjects Business

Schuylkill Navigation Company Scrapbook

Second Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street, Philadelphia

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.

Half a Century of Clean Water: The Clean Water Act, 1972-2022

Black-and-white image showing a factory, smokestacks and smoke, and streets

Dobson’s Mill, 1884, from History of Philadelphia by Scharf & Wescott

Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street, Philadelphia

Second Street North from Market St. with Christ Church, Philadelphia

Philadelphia the Manufacturing and Industrial Capital map, 1906

McDonnell filter advertisement

McConnell Germ-Proof Filters ad

Front and Market, 1881

Front St. and Market St., 1881

Leicester Knitting Mills, Charles Spencer & Co.

Charles Spencer & Co., Leicester Knitting Mills, Germantown, Philadelphia

Henry Disston & Sons, Keystone Saw, Tool, Steel and File Works, 1884 (2004.007.0005)

Henry Disston & Sons Keystone Saw Works

Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1884

Baldwin Locomotive Works