Subjects Communication

Mill Creek Sewer drawing, cross-section, 1869

Archival Storytelling: Water History Video 4

Water Bureau Newspaper Scrapbook, 1942-1952

Map Lovers’ Monday: Circles of Destruction

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

Logan Demanding Flood Relief, 8/18/38