Subjects Communication

Use Water Wisely!

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800

Sewer systems, City of Philadelphia, 1927 and 1929

Board of Health Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks at City Archives of Philadelphia, 1891-1908

CITIZENS’ BUSINESS: 1939-1946

Northeast Philadelphia history, one page at a time: The Holmesburg Library Scrapbook Collection

James W. Phillips Letter Book, 1904-1913

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

Color image of a sheet of newsprint showing headlines

Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 5

Color image of a sheet of old newspaper displaying headlines and type

Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 4

Color image of a page of newsprint with several black-and-white images included

Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 3

Color image of an old sheet of newsprint

Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 2

Black-and-white image of many people wearing white on a bright day

Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 1

Black-and-white image shows black text on a white background

Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Introduction and Table of Contents

Logan Demanding Flood Relief, 8/18/38

Sewer Demand Taken to City Hall, 7/25/32

In The Storm’s Track, Philadelphia Record, 1882-09-25

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

“A Forty-Acre Water Basin,” The Times, June 14, 1883

Gillette Schuylkill mud cartoon

‘Gillette, All By Himself, Gets Fine New Idea On Germ Slaying’

Old Rosin the Beau for the Falcon Barge, J.C. Beckell (2008.001.0047)

Old Rosin the Beau, title page, 1838

Black-and-white newspaper ad advertising "Delightfully Romantic Schuylkill Excursions"

Schuylkill steamship excursions ad, 1852