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You would not have wanted to drink it: Philadelphia’s water supply in 1884
![Pipe Aqueduct across Wissahickon Valley, 1868 (2004.057.0074.004)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2004.057.0074.004-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Wissahickon Pipe Aqueduct, Roxborough to Mt. Airy, 1868
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Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part II, with Adam Levine
![Plan of Philadelphia, John Hills, May 30, 1796](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/graff02.04_Hills-map-1794.jpg?w=300)
Plan of Philadelphia, John Hills, 1796
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Queen Lane Pumping Station, proposed design
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West Philadelphia (or 24th Ward) Water Works, 1855-1870
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Early photographs of Fairmount and vicinity, 1848
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Overbrook, as it was. A brief history of the Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, focusing on changes in the natural landscape.
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Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks of Frederic Graff Jr.,Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Water Department: Part 1, 1854-1857
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Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks of Frederick Graff Jr., Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Water Department. Part 2: 1858-1871
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