Topics Water Supply

Dobson FLP

You would not have wanted to drink it: Philadelphia’s water supply in 1884

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part II, with Adam Levine

Image shows three bottles of water, one clear, one dark and one with sediment floating in it.

Bottled vs. Tap in 1906

Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks of Frederic Graff Jr.,Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Water Department: Part 1, 1854-1857

Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks of Frederick Graff Jr., Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Water Department. Part 2: 1858-1871

Board of Health Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks at City Archives of Philadelphia, 1891-1908

Supporting the party in power

CITIZENS’ BUSINESS: 1939-1946

Petition of manufacturers along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia for a new upstream water supply, 1868

The Water Supply Problem of Philadelphia, 1899

Drawing in blue ink on beige paper depicting reservoir, dam and standpipe heights

History of East Park Reservoir, Philadelphia, Pa., 1869-1889

State of the Schuylkill River in 1876: Sewage pollution and possible remedies