Topics Water Supply

Map Lovers’ Monday: Circles of Destruction

Map Lovers’ Monday: AQUA, in the beginning

Water supply survey: Sanitary inspection of tributaries north of Philadelphia, 1884

Map Lovers’ Monday: Water for City Hall

Use Water Wisely!

Laboratory Alkalinity test, ca. 1943

Water History: Making It Safe to Drink

Water History: Rebirth of the Rivers

Map Lover’s Monday: Looking for Cleaner Water

Sandy Run Watershed and the Holmesburg Water Works

Annual reports and other documents relating to Philadelphia’s water supply system, 1796-1941

Map Lover’s Monday: Fairmount Park, 1869

A hand-pumped fire engine made in Philadelphia in 1792. Water was stored in the copper lined wooden boxes, and two men (one pumping on each handle) forced the water up through the pipe on top, into a hose. (It can be assumed that a bucket brigade was used to keep the boxes filled.)

Hand-pumped fire engine, 1792