Subjects Urban Development

Upper Roxborough filter beds

Upper Roxborough filter beds under construction, July 1902

Outhouse over Schuylkill near Pottstown

Outhouse over the Schuylkill near Pottstown

Fairmount, bird's eye view from Lemon Hill (detail)

Fairmount Park, bird’s eye view from Lemon Hill, detail

Bird's eye view of Delaware River

Bird’s eye view of Delaware River and Philadelphia, about 1840

Laying the Main (2004.057.0074.007)

Commencement of laying the main on the East side of the River, 1871

Engine House of the Belmont Works, R. Newell photo (2004.057.0074.001)

Engine House, Belmont Works

Ornate black-and-white title page to the 1836 sheet music for The Fairmount Quadrilles

The Fairmount Quadrilles, 1836

New Mill House at Fairmount (2008.001.0046)

New Mill House at Fairmount

Typical House Drainage, Combined and Separate Systems (2008.001.0032)

Typical house drainage

Fountain and stand-pipe, 1875 (2004.007.0006)

Fairmount Water Works, with “Nymph and Bittern” fountain and standpipe, 1875

Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1884

Baldwin Locomotive Works

View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827