Subjects Steam engine

Includes steam-powered engines used for pumping water, and on construction sites, and in factories.

Queen Lane Water Works (1894)

Roxborough Works (1869)

Germantown Works (1851) and Mt. Airy Works (1882)

The Chestnut Hill Works (1859-1911)

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.

Pipeline being laid in Wissahickon Avenue