Rivers & Creeks Schuylkill River

CITIZENS’ BUSINESS: 1939-1946

The Schuylkill and Wissahickon banks in 1858

Petition of manufacturers along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia for a new upstream water supply, 1868

Manayunk and the Schuylkill Navigation

Schuylkill Navigation Company Scrapbook

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: The Clean Water Act, 1972-2022

Black-and-white image showing a factory, smokestacks and smoke, and streets

Dobson’s Mill, 1884, from History of Philadelphia by Scharf & Wescott