Topics Infrastructure

men standing around a trench with pipes seen crossing through it. there is a steam engine on wheels behind them to the left, and a building in the background on the right with a sign they says Hotel Abbey, T G Schmidt & Sons, Pilsner & Puritan Beer.

Pipeline being laid in Wissahickon Avenue

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

Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883

A section of wooden water pipe, long out of service, removed from a Philadelphia street in 1901. It had been installed about 1801.

Wooden Water Pipe, removed from Market Street, December 6, 1901

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

Northern Liberties and Spring Garden Water Works

Northern Liberties and Spring Garden Water Works

Stand Pipe of Philadelphia Water Works

Water Works Standpipe, 1853

View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827

City officials tour new interceptor sewer, 1953

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

Eleven men in a work gang plug leaks in a tunnel, the Torresdale Conduit

Torresdale Conduit work gang, 1906