Subjects City Life

Cumberland Street pipeline, 1907

Bureau of Water, Cumberland, west of 13th Street, pipe line, 1907

Samuel H. Ashbridge, former Mayor of Philadelphia

Portrait of Samuel H. Ashbridge, Mayor

State Sen James P. McNichol, 1905-1916

State Sen. James P. McNichol

Picture of John Trautwine, Jr.

Philadelphia Water Department chief engineer John Trautwine Jr., 1890s

Nine visiting nurses ready for work, ca. 1909

Nine visiting nurses ready for work, ca. 1909

Front and Market, 1881

Front St. and Market St., 1881

Immigrant family, ca. 1900

Immigrant family, ca. 1900, nurse in black

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

A man fishing from the banks of the Schuylkill River

Fishing in the Schuylkill

Black and white image of Philadelphia civic and business leaders watching the start of operations at the new Northeast Sewage Treatment Plant, April 6, 1951

Northeast Sewage Plant opening, 1951

City officials tour new interceptor sewer, 1953