Damage Case Records
Series, 2608-03
- Dates
- 1891 – 2003
- Extent
- 10.8 cubic_feet (27 boxes)
- Description
- Files from the Court Section of the Engineering Department, including correspondence, reports, ordinances, claims, court documents, patents, deeds, contracts, blueprints, maps, and photographs relating to court cases brought either against or by the City of Seattle concerning property damage due to natural causes, street grading, or construction projects. Case topics include railroads, waterways, bridges, parks, libraries, sewers, drainage, and streets. Files on the Cedar River watershed and dam include engineersâ reports, field notebooks, maps, data and photographs regarding Cedar River projects and flooding from the Cedar River masonry dam. A few files concern property acquisitions and condemnations. More than six hundred photographs have been scanned and added to the online photograph collection for this series. To view the entire series click the link below. To view photographs in correlation to a specific case, use the folder list below. Files for the period of the late 1950s through early 1970s are missing.
- Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
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