Subjects Politics

Images and documents that cover the politics surrounding Philadelphia's water system and its development, including editorial cartoons, etchings, 19th Century PWD Annual Reports, and hundreds of newspaper clippings.

Black-and-white image of several young people along with a news article

2,000 Turn Out for ‘Be-In’ To Promote ‘Flower Power’

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

Goal (jail) in Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1800

Congress Hall and New Theatre in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Library and Surgeon’s Hall in Fifth Street, Philadelphia, 1800

Gillette Schuylkill mud cartoon

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

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