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Torresdale Water Works (1907)
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From Creek To Sewer
Lardner’s Point Pumping Station (1902)
Delaware and Kensington Works (1851-1890)
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Frankford Pumping Station (1877)
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Color Diagram of Plan for the Collection, Purification and Disposal of the Sewage of the City of Philadelphia
![Aramingo Sewer tunnel, workmen, pilings, machinery, Beach St. Bridge in distance](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/27.jpg?w=300)
A general view of the sewer from the river’s end looking toward the Beach St. Bridge, February 14, 1902
![Eleven men in a work gang plug leaks in a tunnel, the Torresdale Conduit](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/D.5_FINAL_1986.002.2546_crop.jpg?w=300)
Torresdale Conduit work gang, 1906
![Henry Disston's Keystone Saw Works was located along the Delaware riverfront in Tacony. The black-and-white lithograph shows the factory's many smokestacks emitting smoke into the atmosphere.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Disston_20050170201_750w.jpg?w=300)