Topics Infrastructure

Fairmount Water Works: The Surprising History of an American Landmark

Annual reports and other documents relating to Philadelphia’s water supply system, 1796-1992

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

Centre Square Water System

Centre Square Water Works, Drawings of Intake Basin

Queen Lane Water Works (1894)

Lardner’s Point Pumping Station (1902)

Belmont Works (1870)

Roxborough Works (1869)

Germantown Works (1851) and Mt. Airy Works (1882)

Spring Garden Northern Liberties, or Schuylkill Works (1844)