Topics Water Supply

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

Visions of the Schuylkill, 1884 and Now

Centre Square Water System

Centre Square Water Works, Drawings of Intake Basin

Centre Square Water Works, Frederick Graff, Sr. Plans, 1799

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, portrait by Filippo Costaggini, 1880

Centre Square Water Works, Latrobe Plans, 1799

“Fairmount Waterworks. From the forebay.” (From nature & on stone G. Lehman; Published by C.G. Childs & G. Lehman, 1833. Free Library of Philadelphia, Print & Picture Collection)

Fairmount Water Works from the forebay, 1833

The Water Works in Centre Square, Philadelphia

Northern Liberties and Spring Garden Water Works

Northern Liberties and Spring Garden Water Works

Fairmount

Fairmount Water Works, about 1860

Engine House of the Belmont Works, R. Newell photo (2004.057.0074.001)

Engine House, Belmont Works

New Mill House at Fairmount (2008.001.0046)

New Mill House at Fairmount