Topics Water Supply

PWD Celebrates Black History Month

PWD water tech at the Philly Home Show, 1960

PWD water tech at the Philly Home Show, 1960 (detail)

Torresdale Conduit work gang, 1906

Torresdale Conduit work gang, 12/18/1906

Cumberland Street pipeline, 1907

Bureau of Water, Cumberland, west of 13th Street, pipe line, 1907

State Street pipeline construction

State Street pipeline construction, 1904

Laboratory Alkalinity test, ca. 1943

Laboratory Alkalinity test, ca. 1943

Six people and dozens of sandbags performing a load test on a concrete pipe, 1914

Pipe Test, 1914

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