Subjects Pumping Engines

Includes steam engines, water-powered wheels or turbines, and gas-fired and electric pumps, used to provide power that operates pumps.

Black-and-white image of an ornate white building on a riverbank with trees behind it

A new book, more than 40 years in the making, about an iconic Philadelphia building

Fairmount Water Works: The Surprising History of an American Landmark

Water Bureau Newspaper Scrapbook, 1942-1952

Annual reports and other documents relating to Philadelphia’s water supply system, 1796-1992

Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks of Frederick Graff Jr., Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Water Department. Part 2: 1858-1871

Queen Lane Water Works (1894)

Lardner’s Point Pumping Station (1902)

Roxborough Works (1869)

Spring Garden Northern Liberties, or Schuylkill Works (1844)

Fairmount Water Powered Works Expansion (1859 to 1861)

Fairmount Water Turbine Wheels (1851)

Fairmount Water Powered Water Works (1822)