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8200-13: Water Department Photographic Negatives

Dates: 1899 – 1974

Extent: 12180 negatives (12180 images (3400 are digitized and on-line). Many negatives have associated prints. Includes personnel, facilities, Cedar River Watershed, South Fork Tolt, Landsburg, Lake Youngs.)

Water Department photographs depicting projects and property. The negatives date from 1899-1978. Over 3400 are digitized and available on the digital collections site; the majority date from 1900 to the mid-1940s. The over 8,000 unscanned negatives date from the mid-1940s to 1978; descriptions of negatives are available in the finding aid. Topics include: personnel, employees working, the Cedar River Watershed, Tolt watershed, reservoirs, pipeline and watermain installations and repair, facilities, employee events, landslides, and water main breaks. The majority of images are black and white and consist of 4x5 negatives although there are 35 mm and color images in the 1970s. The photographer GHB is Leif H. Bjorseth. Many negatives have associated prints. Cumulatively, they document the work of the Water Department employees and the infrastructure built to carry water to the City of Seattle.

Water Department photographs depicting projects and property. The negatives date from 1899-1978. Over 3400 are digitized and available on the digital collections site; the majority date from 1900 to the mid-1940s. The over 8,000 unscanned negatives date from the mid-1940s to 1978; descriptions of negatives are available in the finding aid. Topics include: personnel, employees working, the Cedar River Watershed, Tolt watershed, reservoirs, pipeline and watermain installations and repair, facilities, employee events, landslides, and water main breaks. The majority of images are black and white and consist of 4x5 negatives although there are 35 mm and color images in the 1970s. The photographer GHB is Leif H. Bjorseth. Many negatives have associated prints. Cumulatively, they document the work of the Water Department employees and the infrastructure built to carry water to the City of Seattle.