City Light Slide Collection
Series, 1204-04
- Record Group
- 1200-00
- Dates
- 1890 – 2000
- Description
- This wide ranging slide collection, primarily from the 1960s - 1980s, heavily features the development of City Light’s power infrastructure in the Skagit and the Cedar River Watershed areas. Skagit tours, hydroelectric powerhouses, switchyards, control rooms, line-workers, and substations are among the hundreds of images relating to Seattle City Light’s facilities. Some earlier images include Skagit workers family photos from the late 1950s. Portraits of City Light superintendents are also available.
Included in this collection are iconic scenes of Seattle including dozens of skyline views, Smith Tower, Columbia Tower and other office buildings, Pike Place Market, Elliott Bay, Green Lake and other parks and recreation areas, public art, shipyards, neighborhoods, the Duwamish waterway, Kingdome, Seattle’s waterfront, the Space Needle and Seattle Center, and City Light’s prototype electric car – the RT1.
Collection has some estimated dates. All slides have been digitized and are available for download. - Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
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