Item Types Photograph

Any images made from a photographic print or negative, including stereoviews, glass or film negatives, tintypes, daguerreotypes, and other photographic processes.

Philadelphia Standard Distribution Valve (20040570221083)

Philadelphia Standard Distribution Valve

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

Engine House, Belmont Works

PWD's Joe Perillo with a large striped bass

Joe Perillo with a large Schuylkill striper in 2015

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

Pipe Test, 1914

Black and white image of Philadelphia civic and business leaders watching the start of operations at the new Northeast Sewage Treatment Plant, April 6, 1951

Northeast Sewage Plant opening, 1951

City officials tour new interceptor sewer, 1953

Photo of Allegheny Avenue Sewer, Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918

Allegheny Avenue Sewer at Pier 126, 1918

The Pennypack Sewage Treatment Works in 1914

Pennypack Sewage Treatment Works, 1914

Man standing in front of Bingham Street Sewer, 1921

Bingham Street Sewer, East of Tacony Creek, 1921

Photo of a work crew constructing a sewer in Rock Run, Tacony Creek, Philadelphia

Sewer construction, Rock Run, 1922

Black-and-white photo of privies, waterless wells used to collect human waste

Privies, Emerald Street, 1919

Two bottles of water from a river, one dark with pollution and one clear after filtration

Water Before and After Roxborough