Topics Sewers & Drainage

Water Bureau Newspaper Scrapbook, 1942-1952

History of Belfield (1934)

Frankford Creek Watershed Historical Timeline

Color image of a grassy field with trees and buildings surrounding it and white lines drawn on the grass mimicking the path of a creek.

Drawing Dock Creek

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

Board of Health Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks at City Archives of Philadelphia, 1891-1908

Sewers, Pollution, and Public Health in 19th Century Philadelphia

CITIZENS’ BUSINESS: 1939-1946

Petition of manufacturers along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia for a new upstream water supply, 1868

Visions of the Schuylkill, 1884 and Now

Dealing with the city’s wastes in the mid-19th century