Subjects Manufacturing

Cobbs Creek: A Brief Historical Overview by Adam Levine

Petition of manufacturers along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia for a new upstream water supply, 1868

Aramingo Sewer, view near Hughes & Patterson and Beach Street Bridge, March 15, 1902

Aramingo Canal, Then and Now

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

Philadelphia the Manufacturing and Industrial Capital map, 1906

Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1884

Baldwin Locomotive Works