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Water Bureau Newspaper Scrapbook, 1942-1952

Torresdale Water Works (1907)

Lardner’s Point Pumping Station (1902)

Delaware and Kensington Works (1851-1890)

Frankford Pumping Station (1877)

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

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

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.

Keystone Saw Works