View of the North Birmingham Waterworks. Card published by Raphael Tuck based on an oil painting. Postmarked 1908. Water was brought by canal from the headwaters of Five Mile Creek starting November, 1897. source:"Yesterday's Birmingham", Malcolm C. McMillan, E.A. Seeman Publishing, Miami, Florida, 1975 .

Postcard Birmingham is a random look at
Birmingham, Alabama history through old picture postcards and is a work always in progress by Warren Reed, reed@atwalker.com