Subjects Steam engine

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

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

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

Centre Square Water System

Queen Lane Water Works (1894)

Lardner’s Point Pumping Station (1902)

Roxborough Works (1869)

Spring Garden Northern Liberties, or Schuylkill Works (1844)

Delaware and Kensington Works (1851-1890)

Frankford Pumping Station (1877)

Twenty-fourth Ward (or West Philadelphia) Works, 1855