Subjects Urban Development

Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks of Frederic Graff Jr.,Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Water Department: Part 1, 1854-1857

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

Technical drawing showing streets and sewers

Leverington Avenue Stormwater Sewer

Cobbs Creek: A Brief Historical Overview by Adam Levine

Petition of manufacturers along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia for a new upstream water supply, 1868

Aramingo Sewer, view near Hughes & Patterson and Beach Street Bridge, March 15, 1902

Aramingo Canal, Then and Now

Dealing with the city’s wastes in the mid-19th century

Second Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street, Philadelphia

William Penn balks at drinking the "mixed drink" offered him: Schuylkill water, mixed with pollution from the upstream sources named. Editorial cartoon by Fred Morgan, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1899. One of a series of cartoons drawn by Morgan protesting the state of the city's drinking water and trying to encourage the passage of legislation authorizing the construction of a water filtration system.

Half a Century of Clean Water

Second Street North from Market St. with Christ Church, Philadelphia

Philadelphia the Manufacturing and Industrial Capital map, 1906

Front and Market, 1881

Front St. and Market St., 1881