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South Side Water Works

1880/1890

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South Side Water Works
  • Title
  • South Side Water Works
  • Creator
  • Frederick T. Gretton
  • Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F04.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F04.I01
  • Description
  • Caption on the bottom of the photograph reads, “South Side water works – Scarlet fever epidemic caused this reservoir to be cleaned – 30th St. Note piles of dirt taken out.” The Monongahela Water Company, located at 1113 Carson Street, constructed its plant in 1865 that supplied water to the South Side section of Pittsburgh. The Birmingham reservoir was located at the head of South Thirtieth Street and in 1875 a small pumping station was constructed at that site. The Monongahela Water Company was purchased by the City of Pittsburgh in 1908 and on February 4, 1909, the South Side received its first filtered water.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • South Side Water Works (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Water--Purification--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    South Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Frederick T. Gretton Photographs, 1857-1953, MSP 328, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Frederick T. Gretton Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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