Vintage Photographs of Water Collectors in Tbilisi, Georgia in the 19th Century

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The water from the Mtkvari River in Tbilisi was used for drinking, sanitation and irrigation from the earliest times of the founding of the city. In 1862, a small centralized filtered water supply network, known as the Korganovi Enterprise, was created but most of the city’s inhabitants continued to rely on unfiltered water collected from the river that was then sold from large leather containers.

Collecting water from the river in the 19th century

Water collectors in the 19th century

Water collector in the 19th century

Selling water from large leather containers in the 19th century

A water seller in the 19th century

A water seller in the 19th century

Selling water in the 19th century