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Board of Health Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks at City Archives of Philadelphia, 1891-1908

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

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.

“A Decidedly Mixed Drink,” April 6, 1899

Color image of a sheet of newsprint showing headlines

Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 5

Color image of a sheet of old newspaper displaying headlines and type

Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 4

Color image of a page of newsprint with several black-and-white images included

Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 3

Color image of an old sheet of newsprint

Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 2

Black-and-white image of many people wearing white on a bright day

Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Book 1

Black-and-white image shows black text on a white background

Holmesburg Scrapbooks, Introduction and Table of Contents

Logan Demanding Flood Relief, 8/18/38

Sewer Demand Taken to City Hall, 7/25/32

“A Forty-Acre Water Basin,” The Times, June 14, 1883