Subjects Public Event

Tour or lecture or other event to which the public is invited. In the context of this website, this could mean either an event that has happened in the past or one that is scheduled for the future.

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

Photo of a woman looking at a jar of raw, untreated sewage

Jar of raw sewage before treatment, 2000

Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River July 15, 1918

Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918

Photo of Allegheny Avenue Sewer, Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918

Allegheny Avenue Sewer at Pier 126, 1918

Photo of a work crew constructing a sewer in Rock Run, Tacony Creek, Philadelphia

Sewer construction, Rock Run, 1922

A list of rules governing the sanitary maintenance of privy vaults in Philadelphia in 1915

Privy Regulations