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City Life
Several workers standing against the wall and one walking down the center of the channel, Aramingo Sewer, April 13, 1901

Infrastructure
Image shows a black-and-white drawing of a creek with dotted lines indicating where changes will be made

Landscape Changes
Appletons' Journal Schuylkill, 1869

Nature
The landing of William Penn at Dock Creek, Philadelphia. The building in the picture is the Blue Anchor Tavern, which was built shortly before Penn’s arrival. (Castner Collection/Free Library of Philadelphia)

Philadelphia before 1800
Outhouse over Schuylkill near Pottstown

Sanitation
Mill Creek Sewer under construction. Several men standing beside a giant partially constructed sewer pipe.

Sewers & Drainage

Streams & Rivers

Technology & Engineering
Oak Lane Reservoir pipeline, 1904

Water Supply