Topics Infrastructure

Map Lovers’ Monday: Philadelphia in 1957, according to the Pennsy

Water History: Repurposing Old Infrastructure

Sandy Run Watershed and the Holmesburg Water Works

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800

Colored ink drawing showing drainage areas and sewer inlets in Philaelphia in the early 19th century

Drainage area plan, early 19th century

1848 Pine Street sewer plan showing an outlet into the Delaware River

Pine Street sewer plan, 1848

Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)

Noll’s New Official Guide Map of Philadelphia, 1897

Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek

Photo of four men standing on the banks of the Schuylkill River on the last day of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956

Last gasp of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956

Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873

Dobson FLP

You would not have wanted to drink it: Philadelphia’s water supply in 1884