Subjects Workers

Includes water department workers of all types – on outdoor construction sites, and in indoor settings including offices, plants, and laboratories. They may either be full-time PWD employees or contract employees.

Mill Creek Sewer under construction. Several men standing beside a giant partially constructed sewer pipe.

Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883

Bridge Street Draw. Southwest side of bridge. April 19, 1896. [Detail].

Bridge Street Draw, April 19, 1896. [Detail of men]

Torresdale Conduit work gang, 1906

Torresdale Conduit work gang, 12/18/1906

Cumberland Street pipeline, 1907

Bureau of Water, Cumberland, west of 13th Street, pipe line, 1907

State Street pipeline construction

State Street pipeline construction, 1904

Six people and dozens of sandbags performing a load test on a concrete pipe, 1914

Pipe Test, 1914

Two black-and-white photographs of pipeline construction on State Road. Depicted are a group of people, trees, buildings, a fire hydrant and a grid of boards over the pipes.

State Road triple pipeline construction, 1904