Topics Streams & Rivers

The Schuylkill and Wissahickon banks in 1858

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

Manayunk and the Schuylkill Navigation

Aramingo Sewer, view near Hughes & Patterson and Beach Street Bridge, March 15, 1902

Aramingo Canal, Then and Now

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

Schuylkill Navigation Company Scrapbook

William Penn balks at drinking the "mixed drink" offered him: Schuylkill water, mixed with pollution from the upstream sources named. Editorial cartoon by Fred Morgan, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1899. One of a series of cartoons drawn by Morgan protesting the state of the city's drinking water and trying to encourage the passage of legislation authorizing the construction of a water filtration system.

Half a Century of Clean Water