Subjects Water Supply

Pipes, distribution mains, transmission mains, filtration plants, pumping stations, and all other appurtenances, either above or underground, that relate to providing drinking water to homes and businesses. In tandem with sewer systems, properly-designed water supply systems are what make densely-populated urban areas possible.

Fairmount Water Works and the Lemon Hill Observatory

Fairmount Water Works: The Surprising History of an American Landmark

Fairmount Water Works in High Resolution

Map Lovers’ Monday: Circles of Destruction

Black-and-white etching of the Wire Bridge at Fairmount, 1873

Wire Bridge at Fairmount, with canal lock and esplanade (Picturesque America)

Wire Bridge at Fairmount

Schuylkill Navigation lock at Fairmount (Picturesque America)

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part II, with Adam Levine

Early photographs of Fairmount and vicinity, 1848

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

Visionary planning report for Philadelphia region, 1928

Northeast Philadelphia history, one page at a time: The Holmesburg Library Scrapbook Collection