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Water History: Rebirth of the Rivers
Drawing Dock Creek
MEET YOUR ENEMY: THE RAT
Board of Health Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks at City Archives of Philadelphia, 1891-1908
Sewers, Pollution, and Public Health in 19th Century Philadelphia
Dock Creek Sewer in 1849
Drainage and Sewerage Report, 1853
Dealing with the city’s wastes in the mid-19th century
The Water and Drainage History of Philadelphia
“Speeding the Parting Guest,” Feb. 25, 1909
Typhoid fever deaths, 1860-1936
“A Decidedly Mixed Drink,” April 6, 1899
Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1793
London after the Great Fire, 1666
Bill for Privy Cleaning, 1869
Sewer Demand Taken to City Hall, 7/25/32
Pennsylvania Hospital in Pine Street
PWD water tech at the Philly Home Show, 1960 (detail)
Lab tech, water cleaning demo, Philly Home Show, 1960
‘Gillette, All By Himself, Gets Fine New Idea On Germ Slaying’
Nine visiting nurses ready for work, ca. 1909
Immigrant family, ca. 1900, nurse in black
Allegheny Avenue Sewer at Pier 126, 1918
Privy Regulations
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