Topics

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