Topics Technology & Engineering

State Street pipeline construction

State Street pipeline construction, 1904

DeLaval Beauty Shots 6

Electric Pump Installations at Lardner’s Point Pumping Station

View from the Inclined Plane, near Philadelphia, 1838

View from the Inclined Plane near Philadelphia, 1838

Standard Philadelphia (B) Hydrant (2004.057.022.1075)

Standard Philadelphia (B) Hydrant

Sewage collection and disposal plan

Plan for the Collection, Purification and Disposal of the Sewage of the City of Philadelphia, 1912

New Mill House at Fairmount (2008.001.0046)

New Mill House at Fairmount

Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1884

Baldwin Locomotive Works

Spring Garden Sewage Experiment Station, used to test water filtration methods

Outside Sprinkling Filters, Spring Garden Sewage Experiment Station, 1911

Two black-and-white photographs of pipeline construction on State Road. Depicted are a group of people, trees, buildings, a fire hydrant and a grid of boards over the pipes.

State Road triple pipeline construction, 1904

Eleven men in a work gang plug leaks in a tunnel, the Torresdale Conduit

Torresdale Conduit work gang, 1906

Black-and-white photograph showing the completed Upper Roxborough Filter system. Vaulted concrete ceiling with beds of filter sand.

Upper Roxborough Filter Beds Complete, 1903