![men standing around a trench with pipes seen crossing through it. there is a steam engine on wheels behind them to the left, and a building in the background on the right with a sign they says Hotel Abbey, T G Schmidt & Sons, Pilsner & Puritan Beer.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/9548198930_c3ff205628_o-300x215.jpg)
![men standing around a trench with pipes seen crossing through it. there is a steam engine on wheels behind them to the left, and a building in the background on the right with a sign they says Hotel Abbey, T G Schmidt & Sons, Pilsner & Puritan Beer.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/9548198930_c3ff205628_o-300x215.jpg)
![](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Holmesburg-scrapbook5-03-featured-300x135.png)
Northeast Philadelphia history, one page at a time: The Holmesburg Library Scrapbook Collection
![A section of wooden water pipe, long out of service, removed from a Philadelphia street in 1901. It had been installed about 1801.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/WoodenPipe-1801-1901-300x244.jpg)
Wooden Water Pipe, removed from Market Street, December 6, 1901
![Black and white photo of two men facing the camera and several facing away while standing and sitting on a board](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/20040330120-300x204.jpg)
Bridge Street Draw, construction of piers, ca. 1896
![Philadelphia Underground, Jan. 29, 1961](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/The_Philadelphia_Inquirer_Sun__Jan_29__1961_-244x300.jpg)
“Philadelphia Underground,” Jan. 29, 1961
![Cumberland Street pipeline, 1907](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/D.4b_FINAL_1986.002.2491_crop-scaled.jpg)
Bureau of Water, Cumberland, west of 13th Street, pipe line, 1907
![State Street pipeline construction](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/D.3ab_FINAL_1986.002.1496-97.jpg)
State Street pipeline construction, 1904
![Stand Pipe of Philadelphia Water Works](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2008.001.0004.jpg)
Water Works Standpipe, 1853
![Six people and dozens of sandbags performing a load test on a concrete pipe, 1914](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Load-test-concrete-sewer-pipe-1914_20040920278-300x236.jpg)
Pipe Test, 1914
![Two black-and-white photographs of pipeline construction on State Road. Depicted are a group of people, trees, buildings, a fire hydrant and a grid of boards over the pipes.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/StateRoad_19860021496_97-300x118.jpg)
State Road triple pipeline construction, 1904
![Eleven men in a work gang plug leaks in a tunnel, the Torresdale Conduit](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/D.5_FINAL_1986.002.2546_crop-300x284.jpg)