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- Page 3: Preservation Partnerships: Fairmount Waterworks, National Historic Landmark
- Paoli Political Boss To Cut Off Water Supply of Independent Voter, Architect Says A.W. Supplee Also Threatened to Kill His Dogs After Bitter Fight-Row Going Into Court, Source: Record, October 24
- Paper 1552 "Sanitation - Its Relation to Health and Life," by George C. Whipple
- Paper 1560 "Imhoff Tanks - Reasons for Differences in Behavior," by Harrison P. Eddy
- Paper 1564 "The Relation of Zoning to the Design of Drainage and Sewerage Systems," by Paul Hansen
- Paper 1564 "Zoning and Water Supply," by H. Malcolm Pirnie
- Papers of interest:
- Parley on River Pollution To[day], City and State Officials Confer on Schuylkill Sewage Measure, Source: Record, April 11
- Parrish Street Culvert
- Partial handwritten index to scrapbook contents
- Part of a photo from 2004.012.0201, Source: Bulletin, April 4, 1925
- Pathogenic bacteria
- Payment of Damages
- Pay of City Employees, Source: Ledger, February 1, 1921
- Pay of City Employees, Source: Ledger, October 29, 1920
- Pennsylvania / Hydrologic data / Ground water / Surface water / Water quality / Gaging stations / Streamflow / Flow rates / Lakes / Reservoirs / Chemical analysis / Sediments / Water temperature / Water analysis / Water levels / Water wells / Data collections / Sites
- Pennsylvania's Stake in the Delaware, Source: Record, May 22
- Pennypack Creek
- Pennypack Creek (PA) -- History -- Miscellanea / Pennypack Creek Valley (PA) -- History -- Miscellanea / Philadelphia (PA) -- History -- Miscellanea
- Peril to Traffic, Source: North American, January 29
- Perkiomen Area Urged as City's Water Source, Mayor's Commission Reports Superiority of Selected Zone Over Upper Delaware, Lehigh and Pocono Sheds for Pure Supply Adequate to Estimated, Needs of Next Fifty Years, Cost Upward of $100,000,000 and It Will Require 6 to 8 Years to Complete Seven Dams, With Storage Reservoir and Deep High Pressure Tunnel; Schuylkill Condemned as Polluted, Source: Inquirer, May 24
- Perkiomen, Aroused by City Water Plans, To Fight Invasion, Playground and Bungalow Colony Say Valley Must be Preserved, Doubt Adequate Water, Source: North American, May 26
- Perkiomen Dam Site, 17 Councilmen in Party Favor Proposal After Trip, Source: North American, May 23
- Perkiomen Folk May Carry Water Plan to Court, Organize to Protest Building of Dams in Upper Valley Region, Northeast Section Will Join in Fight, Residents Assert Delaware River at Torresdale Intake is Polluted, Source: North American, May 29, 1924
- Perkiomen Plan is Urged in Final Report on Water, Commission Reaffirms Recommendation for New City System to Cost $99,000,000 Despite Storm of Criticism Last May When Location First Was Proposed; Use of Contaminated River Opposed, Five Other Possible Sources Are Listed in Findings Which Go From Mayor to Council; Dunlap Proposal, While Declared Cheaper, Is Rejected Because Much Pumping Would Be Necessary, Source: Inquirer, September 19, 1924
- Perkiomen Protests, Collegeville Editor Says Mayor Kendrick Should Listen to the Valley, Source: Bulletin, May 16
- Perkiomen Urged as Cheaper Than Rival Watershed, Commission Members Assert $15,000,000 to Equalize Pressure Would Make Neshaminy Plan Cost More Than Their Project; Continued Use of Torresdale Intake Disavowed, Bacilli Tests Show Schuylkill Less Polluted Than Delaware River at Tapping Point; Dunlap Warns of Epidemic Peril in "Sleeping Volcano" at the Chlorinization Station, Source: Inquirer, June 7
- Permits 115-117
- Permits 153
- Personnel 31-37
- Philadelphia bridge companies
- Philadelphia Has Battled Over Water Supply Problem Since 1797, Back in 1872 a Commission Favored the Perkiomen, and in 1886 Rudolph Hering Advised Use of Delaware and Two Creeks Now Mentioned, Source: Ledger, June 1, 1924
- Philadelphia Has Taken…Source: Ledger, June 9, 1925
- Philadelphians Can Get Clean Water If They Want It, Source: Record, March 18, 1929
- Philadelphians' Hobbies, Source: Ledger, April 15
- Philadelphians Must Drink, Source not known, December 31, 1922
- Philadelphia (PA) -- Antiquities / Philadelphia (PA) -- History / Archaeology and history -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia / Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Antiquities
- Philadelphia (PA) -- Description and travel / Travelers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Correspondence
- Philadelphia (PA) -- History
- Philadelphia (PA) -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
- Philadelphia (PA) -- History / Philadelphia (PA) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
- Philadelphia (PA) -- History -- Pictorial works / Philadelphia (PA) -- Pictorial works
- Philadelphia (PA) in art / Engraving -- 19th century -- United States -- Catalogs / Engraving, American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Catalog / Philadelphia (PA) -- History
- Philadelphia (PA) in art -- Exhibitions / Philadelphia (PA) -- Maps -- Exhibitions / Prints -- Exhibitions / Wohl, Milton, 1924- -- Art collections -- Exhibitions / Wohl, Joan -- Art collections -- Exhibitions / Prints -- Private collections -- Pennsylvania -- Schwenksville -- Exhibitions
- Philadelphia, Pa. - Industry
- Philadelphia, Pa. - Manayunk
- Philadelphia, Pa. - Manayunk - History
- Philadelphia (PA) -- Pictorial works / Historic sites -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Pictorial works
- Philadelphia (PA) -- Pictorial works / Philadelphia (PA) -- Social life and customs -- Illustrations
- Philadelphia (PA) -- Politics and government
- Philadelphia, Pa. - Roxborough - History
- Philadelphia (PA) -- Tours / Philadelphia (PA) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Water-supply.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Water-supply [Centre Square]
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Water-supply. [Centre Square]
- Philadelphia Requires an Auxiliary Plug System, Chief Carleton E. Davis, of Bureau of Reserving Hydrants for Fire Use Only, Type of Hydrant to Use, Source: Bulletin, no date
- Philadelphia's Interest in Delaware Water, Source: Inquirer, May 22
- Philadelphia's Loss, Source: Bulletin, April 26
- Philadelphia Suburban Water Company (PA ) / Water-supply -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Suburban Area -- History
- Philadelphia's Water Peril, Source: Bulletin, June 6
- Philadelphia's Water Supply, Source: Ledger, April 20
- Philadelphia's Water Supply, Source: Ledger, December 29
- Philadelphia Turbine Tests, .pdf pp. 21, 23-24.
- Philadelphia Water Works
- Phila. May Use Neshaminy and Tohickon Water, Project Favored by Officials Is Modification of Plan 3 in Water Commission Report and Would Provide Added Supply From Upper Delaware, Twenty Miles Above Yardley, Hall Says $50,000,000 Can Be Borrowed, But Would Be Careful to Avoid Wrong Start; Seventy Civic Heads Make Two-Day Inspection Trip; Conference Is to Be Held Today, Source: Inquirer, October 30
- Phila. Must Get State's Consent to Water Plans, Approval of Health and Forest and Waters Departments Required, Experts Already Are Going Over Ground, Paying Particular Attention to Availability of Perkiomen Creek Valley, Source: North American, August 31
- Phila. Safeguards Its Water Supply, Mayor Orders Ashton to Confer With State Law Chief on Delaware River pact, Lawsuit Will Be Started, Source: Ledger, May 22
- Phila.'s Water Safe, State Analysis Shows, Source: Ledger, March 6
- Phila. Water Makes W.C.T.U. Members Ill, Chlorine 'Purification' Assailed in Council by McCoach, Even Kills Fish, Source: North American, November 15, 1922
- Phila. Water Safe, Officials Declare, Fears Unfounded Despite Bad Taste and Odors, They Say-Compares With Any City, Source of Supply Bad, Source: Bulletin, March 1
- Phoenix Bridge Company
- Phoenix Bridge Company / Bridges -- United States -- Design and construction -- History -- 19th century / Bridges, prefabricated -- History -- 19th century
- Phoenix Iron Company
- Phoenix Iron Works
- Phoenixville Bridge Works
- Phoenixville (PA) -- History / Chester County (PA) -- History / Montgomery County (PA) -- History / Schuylkill River Valley (PA) -- History
- Photo #1 caption: This Great Wooden Water Pipe Winding Like a Huge Serpent is the "flow line" of the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company's recently completed Wallenpaupack hydro-electric development, the power house of which is located on the Lackawaxen River adjacent to the Erie Railroad….Source: Bulletin, March 1, 1927
- Photo #1, title: Perkiomen Creek at Greenlane, caption: A sweeping view of the Perkiomen at Greenlane, which is several miles above Collegeville, Source: Bulletin, March 24, 1923
- Photo #1, title: Perkiomen Creek Long Regarded as Desirable Source for an Increased Water Supply for Philadelphia, Source: Bulletin, April 18, 1923
- Photo #2 attached to the article in 2004.012.0085, title: City's Center May Look Under New "City Beautiful" Arrangement Now Being Planned, caption: "Here is a conception of what the vicinity of Broad and Market Streets may look like when final plans are put through…", Source: Ledger, January 20, 1924
- Photo #2 caption: Diagram Shows Location of New Pipe Line, Costing $1,600,000 now under construction…Source: Bulletin, June 10, 1929
- Photo #2, title: Fairmount Dam Will be Engineering Triumph 1100 Feet Long to Cost $700,000, caption: The old Fairmount Dam, a section of which is shown in the photograph, is to be replaced by a modern engineering masterpiece 1100 feet long, of cyclopean masonry, to cost $700,000, Source: Ledger, April 15, 1923
- Photo #2 title: Mayor and Cabinet Members Greet Public at City Hall Reception, caption: Mayor Harry A. Mackey and his party photographed in his office…, Source: Ledger, January 2, 1928
- Photo #2 title: The Art Museum Viewed From The West Bank of the Schuylkill, caption: This Striking View Shows the Magnificent Structure, its exterior almost completed, standing at the head of the Parkway on an elevation formerly known as "Reservoir Hill,"…Source: Bulletin, March 4, 1927
- Photo #2, title: Where It is Proposed to Build a Big Reservoir to Augment[ation], caption: Icehouse at Greenlane, eighty feet high, which will be the approximate height of the proposed reservoir, Source: Bulletin, March 24, 1923
- Photo #3 attached to photo #2 in 2004.012.0086, title: How the City's Center May Look Under New "City Beautiful" Arrangement Now Being Planned, Source: Ledger, January 20, 1924
- Photo #3, title: Philadelphia's Water Supply, caption: One of several dams above Greenlane which add to the picturesqueness of the stream that is the heart of the $20,000,000 project, Source: Bulletin, March 24, 1923
- Photo #4, title: Scene of Proposed Reservoir, caption: In this section would be created under Councilman Hall's plan a water supply system surpassing any other except New York's. An enlarged dam would be erected to hold billions of gallons, Source: Bulletin, March 26
- Photo attached to above article, "Engineers Praise Swaab Water Plan,…" title: Proposed Dam Site, caption: Map of the Delaware River section from Philadelphia northward,…Source: Bulletin, February 9
- Photo attached to above article, "Schuylkill Bridge to Carry…," title: Links City's Water Supply Bases, caption: The new 48-inch water main suspended under the Girard Avenue Bridge across the Schuylkill is shown above. The main links the West Philadelphia supply with that on the east side of the river, and was constructed at a cost of $250,000, Source: Ledger, October 12
- Photo attached to above article, title: City Officials Inspect Water Supply Sites, caption: Mayor Kendrick and a party of Councilmen, engineers and members of the Water Supply Commission yesterday made the first of a two-day inspection tour of the Perkiomen-Tohickon watersheds…,Source: Ledger, October 29
- Photo attached to above article, title: Main Burst Makes City Street a Lake, caption: Water pouring from a break in the 48-inch pipe leading from the East Park reservoir mined a crater in Oxford St., 20 feet west of 33rd at 5 a.m. today, Source: Bulletin, July 28, 1926
- Photo attached to above article, title: Route of Proposed Water Tunnel, caption: This map shows the direction of the ten-mile tunnel proposed by Director Murdoch…Source: Ledger, May 8, 1929
- Photo attached to above article, title: Scene of Main Break and Boy Hero, caption: Upper photo shows the water which flooded streets and cellars after a break…Inset is of Michael Cavaliere…who aroused families in the neighborhood. Lower picture shows marble steps at 120 North 7th St. dislodged by the water. Source: Ledger, September 3
- Photo attached to above article, title: Where 15-inch Water Main Broke, caption: The hole in the pavement of Bristol St. between 4th and Lawrence Sts…., Source: Bulletin, January 1
- Photo attached to above article, title: Where Flood Marooned Hundreds, caption: A principal main leading from the East Park Reservoir burst at 33rd and Oxford Streets…, Source: Ledger, December 12, 1925
- Photo attached to article, "Manayunk Mills Closed by Floods…" title: A Turbulent Schuylkill Floods Its Banks, caption: The upper photo shows the river…tumbling furiously over Flat Rock Dam. In the lower picture, John J. Bush and his daughter, Edith, are negotiation a flood stretch of road on the west Schuylkill bank opposite two Manayunk mills…, Source: Ledger, February 26
- Photo attached to the above article, caption: …a sixty-inch water main broke at the Frankford creek bridge on Torresdale Avenue…picture shows the tremendous volume of water that poured from the break, which occurred at an elbow on the cast abuttment of the bridge. This is the third accident of the kind that has taken place at the same spot within three years, Source: Inquirer, January 11, 1923
- Photo attached to the above article, caption: "Map of proposed aerial footway around City Hall, with the thirteen designated connections between sidewalks and elevated structure. The interior span running through City hall courtyard from east to west is also indicated", Source: Ledger, January 1, 192[?]
- Photo attached to the above article, caption: "…one of the big engines with which Philadelphia's water supply is pumped from the Delaware River… at Lardner's Point, the largest pumping station in the world. To generate the necessary steam supply requires 200,000 tons of coal annually at this station alone", Source: Ledger, no date given
- Photo attached to the above article, caption: "…view of the Queen Lane filtration plant…", Source not known, December 31, 1922
- Photo attached to the above article, title: The Proposed "Underground City" at City Hall Site, caption:…"shows how the suggested new scheme for a "City Beautiful" will be worked out underground…", Source: Ledger, January 20, 1924
- Photo caption: A Broad Street Geyser, Yellowstone National Park conceded a point to Philadelphia yesterday when a workman on the Broad Street subway accidentally damaged a 12-inch main near Vine St…,Source: Inquirer, October 9, 1926
- Photo caption: "Ain't I to Be In It?" Source: Record, December 29, 1924
- Photo caption: A Voyage of Discovery, Source: Record, October 29, 1924
- Photo caption: Diagram Locating Past and Present Philadelphia Water Supply Suggestions…Source: Bulletin, February 14, 1927
- Photo caption: During Frankford Business Men's Inspection of the Torresdale Filtration Plant-Alexander Murdoch,…is shown holding up to the light a bottle filled with raw water from the Delaware River…Source: Bulletin, November 23
- Photo, caption: Fairmount Water Works, Source not given
- Photo caption: First Meeting of Mayor Mackey and His Cabinet at City Hall…Source not known
- Photo caption: Frankford Business Men Inspect Enlarged Water Plant, Work is about completed on the Torresdale filtration plant, which has been undergoing improvement…Source: Ledger, November 23
- Photo caption: High Waters of Spring Pour Merrily Over the New Fairmount Dam…Source: Inquirer, March 14, 1927
- Photo caption: In City's New Machine Shop, J. Remer and Harry Duncan repairing the seven-foot impeller for Torresdale pumping station, in city's new machine shop, at Twenty-ninth and Cambria Streets, Source: Inquirer, April 19
- Photo, caption: New City Water Board at First Meeting, Left to right are-J. Waldo Smith, George W. Fuller, George H. Biles, Director of Public Works; Alexander Murdoch, chairman of Water Bureau; Mayor Kendrick, Joseph F. Hasskarl, S.M. Swaab and Edward Loeb, secretary to the Mayor, at first meeting of Water Commission under new city administration, Source: Inquirer, February [?], 1924
- Photo caption: Shawmont [Roxborough] Pumping Station Rehabilitated, Samuel Thompson, superintendent, and Alexander Murdoch, chief of the Water Bureau, were photographed yesterday in the rebuilt Shawmont Pumping Station…, Source: Inquirer, October 13
- Photo caption, "The More I Hear About It, The Better I Like It." Source: Record, October 22
- Photo caption: View of the New $600,000 Fairmount Dam, Which is Nearing Completion, Scene from the north side of the Art Museum…, Source: Bulletin, December 16, 1926
- Photography -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History / Philadelphia (PA) -- Pictorial works / Philadelphia (PA) -- Biography -- Portraits
- Photo: Handling Local Fire Calls, Caption: Briefly talks about the process of receiving fire calls, Source not known
- Photo of Alexander Murdoch, Birthday Bulletin, The Inquirer congratulates the chief of the Water Bureau, Source: Inquirer, June 28
- Photo of Alexander Murdock attached to the above article, Source: Bulletin, January 25
- Photo of Dunlap, Water Office Head, Source: Inquirer, May 9
- Photo of Fred C. Dunlap, Former Chief of Water Bureau, who calls Perkiomen-Tohickon project a "gold brick," and describes supply from Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers as "rotten" and "filtered sewage." Source: Inquirer, May 28, 1924
- Photo, plan and birds-eye views of Chinese Wall, and captions discussing its possible removal by city and railroad companies
- Photos attached to the above article, caption: "Showing damage done by flames…at the plant of John Maneely & Company, D Street below Nicetown Lane…", Source: Inquirer, January 8, 1923
- Photo: The Aqua Purist, Caption: "…Carleton E. Davis' name has become indelibly associated with the liquid of life…", Source: Public Ledger, March 17, 1922
- Photo: The Schuylkill Needs Water-Do Your Duty Mr. Jup. Pluv. [Jupiter Pluvius]
- Photo title: Another Water Main Break Causes Cave-in, caption: A gap twenty feet in diameter was torn in the paving on Glenwood Ave. near 6th St., when a second water pipe break occurred in this city today, Source: Bulletin, December 12
- Photo title: As The Great Conowingo Dam Over the Susquehanna, caption: View of the Fortress-Like Structure From the East Shore…Source: Bulletin, March 1, 1927
- Photo title: Big Tractor "Scratch-Cat" at Belmont Filter Plant Used in Cleaning The S[?], caption: Closeup of Scratch-Cat, the latest device for cleaning clogged filter beds…Source: Bulletin, March 20, 1928
- Photo title: Broken Broad St. Water Main Turns Geyser, caption: The break in the high pressure main occurred when a heavy section of granite curbing which subway workers were loading on a motor truck fell on the 14-inch iron pipe at Broad and Wallace Sts…, Source not known, July 7, 1925
- Photo, title: Conflicting Projects For Water Supply, caption: The four sources of water supply north of the city are shown on the map issued with the annual report of the city's water bureau….Length of aqueducts costing approximately $1,000,000 a mile to convey water from the different supply basins to this city are shown in map, Source: Inquirer, February 1, 1924
- Photo title: Damage Wrought on 7th St. by Bursting Main, caption: Water pouring from a 30-inch main beneath 7th St, below Cherry…, Source: Bulletin, September 3, 1926
- Photo title: Directors Named by Mayor-Elect Mackey, caption: shows 6 directors, Source: Ledger, January 2, 1928
- Photo title: Flames Sweep Broad St. Storage House, caption: The picture shows the odds against which the fire men worked at the five-alarm blaze…,Source: Ledger, July 24
- Photo title: Fountain Spouts in Street, caption: School children playing around geyser at 9th and Moore Streets, where a 10-inch water main broke yesterday afternoon, Source: Ledger, May 9
- Photo title: Geyser Smashes Crater in Market Street, caption: The pavement was undermined when a big water main broke on Market Street near Front…, Source: Ledger, June 22, 1926
- Photo title: Harry A. Mackey Realizes Lifelong Ambition as He Takes Oath as Mayor of Philadelphia, caption: nine photos of men, Source: Ledger, January 8, 1928
- Photo title: Heat and Dry Spell Make It Possible to Walk Across the Schuylkill River Bed at Manayunk Without Wetting One's Shoes, caption: View Above Green Lane Bridge…Source: Bulletin, June 20, 1929
- Photo title: How a Modern Sewage Disposal Plant Works, caption: Steps in the treatment of sewage, as it will be done in Philadelphia's completed plants before the matter is emptied into the Delaware River, are shown in this illustration. Removal of germs, however, is not contemplated in the process, according to Fred C. Dunlap…, Source: Inquirer, November 21, 1924
- Photo title: Huge Conduit, Seven Miles Long, Being Built in [?], caption: The 93-inch main of the New Water Supply Line from the Torresdale filtration plant…Source: Bulletin, June 10, 1929
- Photo title: Modern Span Slowly Replacing 100-Year-Old Fairmount Dam, caption: Two views showing the progress being made in the construction of the new Fairmount Dam across the Schuylkill River, just above the Art Museum. The structure, which will be completed by December 1 at a cost of $600,000, will provide an uninterrupted water supply to West and North Philadelphia. The dam is being built eight feet south of the old dam, which dates back more than 100 years and which in recent years has cost the city thousands of dollars for repairs., Source: Ledger, July 24
- Photo title: Newly Completed Fairmount Dam With The Schuylkill Rushing Over Its Crest, caption: Looking From the West Bank of the River…Source: Bulletin, November 15
- Photo title: Northeast to Safeguard Municipal Water Service, caption: How the "Big Ditch" in the Northeast Looks-The pipes are placed so…Source: Bulletin, June 10, 1929
- Photo title: Noted Engineer Dies, caption: John C. Trautwine, Jr. One of America's foremost engineers and former chief of the Water Bureau, who died in the Lankenau Hospital yesterday, Source: Ledger, July 5, 1924
- Photo title: Perkiomen Water Project Before Council's Committee, caption: Mayor Kendrick Addressing Councilmanic Committee, urging a complete inquiry as to the Perkiomen-Tohickon and other suggested sources for Philadelphia's future water supply before committee action is taken. Seated on the platform, in room 496, City Hall, from reader's left: James Caldwell, secretary of Public Works' Committee; George Connell, chairman, and Joseph Marcus, clerk of City Council. Also pictured are: Charles B. Hall, President of City Council; Mayor Freeland Kendrick; Director George H. Biles, of Public Works; Fred C. Dunlap, former Chief of the Water Bureau, Source: Bulletin, June 7,1924
- Photo title: Phila.'s Water Carrier of 1799, caption: A section of water pipe (wooden) used here in 1799 unearthed by the new bridge builders at Front and Race Streets. Mary Shechan and Juliet Moorhouse are "looking it over," Source: Ledger, January [?], 1925
- Photo title: Raging Torrents Flood Broad Street, caption: Whirling eddies, giving the impression of a river at flood height…The picture shows Broad Street from Sansom Street to Walnut, Source: Ledger, November 5, 1927
- Photo title: River at Torresdale, caption: Hundreds of Herring Washed Ashore at the Biddle estate at Torresdale…Source: Bulletin, June 26
- Photo title: Schuylkill River Above Spring Garden Bridge Nears Completion, caption: …In the background on the hill may be seen the site of the new Art Museum, Source: Daily News, September 23, 192[?]
- Photo title: Site on Upper Delaware Where Mayor's Engineer Suggests City Should Go For Its Water Supply, caption: How the Delaware Looks Today at Site of Dam Suggested by Mr. Swaab-The picture was taken from the Pennsylvania shore four miles down stream from Bushkill,…Source: Bulletin, February 14, 1927
- Photo title: The Picturesque Waterfall at Fairmount Dam, on Schuylkill, Now Being Rebuilt, Source: Bulletin, April 4, 1925
- Photo title: Thousands of Dead Fishes Believed to [?], caption: Victims of Heavy Film of Oil which coats the river for many miles…Source: Bulletin, June 26
- Photo title: To Extend High Pressure Service, caption: Diagram shown above indicates the proposed extension of the high pressure service to take in a larger territory in the central business section of the city as announced yesterday by Director George H. Biles, of the Department of Public Works. The completion of the extension, which will cost about $200,000, will be rushed, Source: Inquirer, January 28, 1924
- Photo title: To Spend Millions, caption: Director Biles, Who announced huge scheme to improve sewage disposal and water supply in Northeast Philadelphia, Source: Ledger, February 9, 1926
- Photo title: Under Consideration for Philadelphia's Water Supply, caption, One of the proposition advanced for obtaining an adequate water supply for this city is to use the Lehigh Canal right of way for bringing the new water here. Two of the suggested sites are the Pocono region and the Perkiomen Valley, Source: Ledger, May 15
- Photo title: Water Bureau Chief Back From Florida, caption: John S. Ely, prevented by illness from beginning his work in the Mackey administration…Source: Bulletin, March 27
- Photo title: Water Main Break Causes a Geyser, caption: Water spouting into the air on Belmont Ave. near Lansdowne Drive, in Fairmount Park, after a break…, Source: Bulletin, October 17
- Photo title: Water Main Break Floods Kensington Streets, Causing Damage Running Into Hundreds of Thousands, Source: Record, February [3]
- Photo title: Water Main Break Floods Street, caption: Flooded section at 3rd St., below Federal after a water break…Source: Bulletin, April 21
- Photo title: Water Main Break on Frankford Ave., caption: A large area near Womrath St. was flooded…Source: Bulletin, June 25
- Photo title: Water Main Break Sends Torrent Into Street, caption: Two views of the break in a 36-inch water main on Thompson St. near 29th…Source: Bulletin, May 30, 1928
- Photo, title: Work to Start at Once on New $700,000 Fairmount Park Dam, caption: …Diagram at reader's upper right shows detailed plan of the new dam. Diagram at reader's lower left shows style of construction of the present dam. The dotted liens drawn in the diagram of the new dam show the size of the present dam as [?] the new project, Source: Bulletin, January 26, 1924
- Photo: Washout Caused by Broken Water Main, Source: Ledger, December 12, 1922
- Photo: [W]est Children Keep Cool, Source not known
- Pickering Creek
- Picknickers Menace Water Sources, Source: Inquirer, December 24, 1926
- Piling Under Dam Instead of Bedrock, Discovery Causes Much Extra Work on Fairmount Structure, Granite Wall Fell In, Source: North American, March 25
- Pinchot Awaits Report of Water Engineers, Source: Ledger, March 5
- Pipe Break Floods Street, Water Forms in Front of Steamship Pier on Delaware Avenue, Source: Ledger, June 3
- Pipe Bridge
- Pipe, Cast-iron / Pipe
- Pipe, concrete
- Pipe, Concrete
- Pipe -- Concrete / Sewer-pipe / Drainage
- Pipes Laid 39-46
- Pipes Will Drain Schuylkill Mud, New Dam Feature May Remove Mud Flats and Return River to Old Channel, Sediment Balks Oarsmen, Source: Bulletin, July 26
- Plan City Hall Annex, Council Committee Reports Favorably on Bill Acquiring Ground, Source: Record, December 16, 1920
- Plan Gives City Bristol Water Co., Holmesburg Territory Served by Old Concern Would Be Taken Over by Philadelphia, Equipment Wins Praise, Source: Ledger, June 15
- Plans for Improvement of City's Water Supply, Vast Expenditures Necessary to Make It Adequate to Rapidly Growing Needs, Source: Ledger, October 1[?]
- Plans for Purification of Delaware Under Way, Proposed Sewer Will Free River North of Lehigh Avenue From Pollution, Source: Record, February 2[5]
- Plans for Study of Water Supply, Service Board Suggest Conference That Would Interest Three States, Source: Record, April 13
- Plans for Water System Ready; To Cost $60,000,000, Supply to Come From Delaware and Neshaminy, Will Necessitate $12,000,000 Loan, City's Needs Then Will Be Taken Care of For Next 50 Years, Source: North American, July 21
- Plans to Prevent Water Pipe Breaks, Murdoch Proposes Mains Under Sidewalks So Trucks Would Not Snap Small Pipes, Saving to Householders, Source: Bulletin, December 17, 1926
- Plant Burns; Water Fails, 300 Workers Lose Jobs by Fire; 6-Inch Main Assailed, Source: Ledger, May 21
- Plan to Electrify Pumping Stations, City Water Works Crippled by Using Bad Coal, Due to Strike, Cost Not Very Great, Declare Saving Would Soon Overcome Initial Outlay; To Buy Power, Source: Record, February 6, 1926
- Plan to Shift 100 Jobs Out of Water Bureau, Will Remove Them All From Civil Service Restrictions, Source: Record, October 5
- Plan Water Improvements, Seek Metropolitan Supply System, With Aid of Sate, Source: Bulletin, January 2
- Plastics
- Pledges $13,000,000 For Pure Water, Mayor Promises Sewage Disposal Work in Agreement With State Board on Pollution, See Rivers Clear by 1935, Source: Ledger, April 10
- Plenty of Water Here, Says Expert, Bureau Engineer Declares City Supply is Best in Last Three Years, New Inspection Invited, Source: Ledger, July 7
- Plugging the Water Leaks, Source: Bulletin, February 28
- Policeman on Chase Gets Lost in Subway, Rescued From Broad Street Excavation After Search for Pipe Thieves, Source: Inquirer, December 9
- Polluted Waters Destroying Fish, Source: Inquirer, February 5, 1926
- Polluted Water, Source: Evening Telegraph, April 3, 1929
- Polluted Water Use Defended by City Commission, Detailed Report to Mayor Replies to Criticism of Lower Delaware as Source of Supply for Next Fifty Years and Pleads Justification for Perkiomen-Tohickon Plan With Torresdale Intake, Kendrick Says Dunlap Suggestion Does Not Eliminate Present Filtration Plant Immediately; Pledges Full Publicity and Fair Treatment to All; Former Chief Davis Upholds Investigators' Project, Source: Inquirer, June 3, 1924
- Pollution Prevention Gains Reported in Delaware River, Source: Inquirer, October 31
- Poor Pay and Hard W[ork], Councilmen Say Conditions at [Fil]tration Plant Are Deplorable, Source not known
- Port Richmond Main Breaks, 100 Dwellings Without Water-Block Flooded, Source not known
- Pottsville Region Dryer Than Ever Known Before, Cold Weather Freezes the Little Moisture That Was Flowing, Source: Record, December 11
- Pottsville Water Co. to Build Huge Reservoir, Source not known
- Pottsville Water Co. Will Build a $1,000,000 Dam, Source not known
- Praises Phila. For Parkway Development, Andrew Wright Crawford Terms It Greatest Accomplishment of Last 20 Years, Source: Record, January 3, 1921
- Praises Water Supply, Construction Company Engineer Says Filtration Cuts Death Rate, Source: Inquirer, January 4, 1921
- Prayers Unavailing; Drought Increases, Schuylkill River Dry at Source Except for Mine Water, Source: North American, November 20
- Precaution Urged For Water Supply, Davis Advises Connecting Districts Now Divided by Schuylkill, Safety Measure, Source: North American, December 28, 1922
- Precipitation 122
- Precipitation 142-149
- Precipitation 57
- Prepare Meter Plans, Bureau Working Mayor's Outline for Saving Water, Source: Ledger, January 28
- Preparing for the New Water Project, Source: Inquirer, February 6, 1924
- Present Status of the Compact on Delaware Water, Philadelphia Must Protect Its Rights in Tri-State Dispute, Source: Ledger, May 25
- Prime Need of the City, Source: Bulletin, January 14, 1924
- privies
- Probe Schuylkill Water Pollution, City Solicitor Names Ladner Special Counsel for Survey-Selects Four Engineers, Includes Major Blue, Source: Bulletin, April 13
- Problem of Universal Water Meterage, Source: Inquirer, May 21
- Problem of Water Supply Worries West Chester, Drought Threatens Town Unless Council Acts Very Quickly, Source: Ledger, August 24
- Projects 43-46
- Promises Water Free From Odor, Murdoch Says All Objectionable Taste Will Be Gone Tomorrow, Source: Bulletin, January 16
- Propose Citizens Buy Water Plant, Residents of Northeast May Be Asked to Purchase Holmesburg Works, Valuation Set at $854,610, Source: Ledger, June 3, 1924
- Proposed City Hall Bridge to Have Thirteen Exits, Aerial Footway Plans Roughly Sketched by Superintendent Mills, Source: Ledger, January 1, 192[3]
- Propose to Purify Delaware Water, State Wants City to Push Plans to Relieve River of Sewage Pollution, Cost Will Be Very High, Ambitious Program Outlined. Price Fixed for Suburban Water Company, Source: Record, February 9
- Protest High Price For Water Supply, Oak Lane Park Complains It Pays Springfield Co. Rate for Liquid from City Reservoir, Detect it By Bad Taste, Source: Bulletin, January 13
- P.R.R. Unable to Get Water in Coal Regions for Freight Service, Source: Ledger, November 18
- P.R.T. Board Rubber Stamp[?] Council Hears [?], Run by Mitten-Managed Executive Body, City's Representatives Say, Union Bank Head Director, Refuses to Answer Bootleg Alliance Charges on Roper's Demand, Source: Record, March 22
- P.S.C. Turns Down Big Water Merger, Financing Described as 'Fictitious Increase of Indebtedness', Commission Refuses Filing of Notification Certificates for $9,200,000 Bonds, Source: Inquirer, September 23
- Public art -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Publicity for the Water Supply Report, Source: Inquirer, May 27
- Public Water Hearing Planned by Kendrick, Source: North American, June 13
- Public Water Supplies Safe, Says U.S. Chemist, Only Private Wells Dangerous for Tourist, He Tells Convention, Source: Ledger, June
- Public Will Hear Dunlap on Water, Former Bureau Chief to Attend Hearings and Present His Objections to Perkiomen Plan, Answers Hall's Attack, Source: Bulletin, May 30
- Public works / Pavements specifications / Sidewalks / Specifications
- Public works -- United States -- History
- Pumpage 120-121 (charts)
- Pumpage 57, 69-73 (charts), 91, 90-96 (charts)
- Pumping Engines
- Pumping machinery
- Pumping machinery / Compressed air
- Pumping Stations 124-135
- Pumping stations 61
- Pumping Stations to Be Electrified, Engineers See Way to Prevent Water Shortage Because of Inferior Coal, Expense Not Excessive, Source: Ledger, February 6
- Pumping Stations Will Get Coal, Reading Will Deliver 500 Tons of Anthracite Daily Beginning Next Week, Water Chief is Elated, Scant Supply During Last Four Weeks Was Due to Operating With Substitutes, Source: Record, February 20
- Pump Station Bids Opened, Electrification of Torresdale Plant Will Increase Efficiency 50 P.C., Source not known, February 24
- Pumps to Be Installed at Belmont Station, Source: Record, April 27
- Pure Supply is Ordered, Source: Ledger, May 27
- Pure Water Plans, Source: Ledger, April 1
- Pure Water Urged For Public's Use, State Expert Says Companies Are Responsible for Taste, Color and Odor, Source: Ledger, October 28
- Pure Water Wanted, Source: Bulletin, February 3
- Purifying Water Big City Problem, Removal of Bad Tastes and Odors Difficult Task for Chemists, Source: Inquirer, May 20, 1922
- Put the Water System in Order, Source: Inquirer, March 10, 1926
- Put Water Purchase Plan Up To Collingswood Citizens, Source: Record, November 12
- PWD receives State and International Awards