Board of Public Works Miscellaneous Subject Files
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, reports, applications, permits, petitions, and contracts relating to construction, condemnations, street use, franchises, and rights of way. This series is an artificial collection arranged alphabetically by subject.
Dates
- Creation: 1896-1977
Creator
- Seattle (Wash.). Board of Public Works (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access note
Records are open to the public.
Historical Note
The Board of Public Works was created to coordinate public works projects, to award construction contracts on behalf of the City, and to approve contractor's bills. The Board also ensured that prevailing wages were paid on City projects. The Board was originally establish by the 1890 City Charter as a citizen group. The Charter of 1896 reorganized the Board and thereafter its members included the superintendents of City departments directly involved in public works. The Board was abolished by City Charter amendment in 1992 and its functions were assumed by the Department of Administrative Services.
Extent
13.4 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Location of Records
SMA
Subject
- Seattle City Light (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Alaskan Way
- Boundary Project
- Carnivals
- Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.)
- Circus
- Clocks and watches -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Condemnation
- Driveways
- Duplexes
- Excavations
- Extended Care Facilities
- Floating Homes
- Hospitals
- Illegal Loads
- Laundries -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Marquees -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Parking
- Radio
- Refuse collection -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Seafair
- Signs and Billboards
- Skagit Project
- Street Railways
- Street Use
- Streets
- Telephone Systems
- Tolt Dam
- Towing
- Traffic signs and signals
- Title
- Guide to the Miscellaneous Subject Files 1896-1977
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Seattle Municipal Archives Repository