Rivers & Creeks Schuylkill River

Philadelphia drinking water 90+ years ago

Pipe Aqueduct across Wissahickon Valley, 1868 (2004.057.0074.004)

Wissahickon Pipe Aqueduct, Roxborough to Mt. Airy, 1868

Hand-drawn and colored map depicting a river with streams branching off of it

Map Lovers’ Monday: 1891 Water Supply Plan

Down Under III: A walk in the Dobson’s Run Storm Relief Sewer, June 15, 2010

Dobson FLP

Requiem for a stream: A brief history of Dobson’s Run

Down Under, Part 2: Beaver Creek as it appears today

William Penn balks at drinking the "mixed drink" offered him: Schuylkill water, mixed with pollution from the upstream sources named. Editorial cartoon by Fred Morgan, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1899. One of a series of cartoons drawn by Morgan protesting the state of the city's drinking water and trying to encourage the passage of legislation authorizing the construction of a water filtration system.

Half a Century of Clean Water

International Exhibition situation plan, 1876

Centennial Exhibition situation plan, 1876

Showing method of sinking the pipe on the bed of the River (2004.057.0074.006)

Showing the method of sinking the pipe on the bed of the river