Ross Dam
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
City Light Advertising Materials
Correspondence, reports, articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and advertisements relating to the Skagit River, power rates, and City Light advertisements.
City Light Negatives
City Light News Clippings Scrapbooks
City Light Photographic Prints
This series is comprised of prints and represents a small portion of the work done by Seattle City Light to electrify Seattle. One hundred and twenty-three prints are available for download on our digital platform; this includes 54 Real Estate Services photos of identified addresses. For a comprehensive look at the work of Seattle City Light, see the SCL negative collection (1204-01).
City Light Slide Collection
Slides documenting the development of City Light's public power facilities including dams, power houses, transmission lines, substations, and methods of wiring.
Gordon S. Clinton Mayoral Records
Correspondence, reports, and studies, financial papers, minutes, speeches, notes and memoranda, newspaper clippings, and ephemera relating to Clinton's term as mayor. Includes departmental files and correspondence with agencies and individuals outside City government. Arranged alphabetically for each year.
Office of Management and Budget Departmental Correspondence
Correspondence, legislation, reports, and speeches organized by City department. Includes materials on the Mayor's Reorganization Project, energy legislation, conservation programs, and the activities of city council committees. Includes one folder of speeches by Mayor Charles Royer.
Phyllis Lamphere Subject Files II
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and studies relating to Lamphere's activities and interests on City Council. Prominent subjects include parks, historic preservation, utilities, West Seattle Bridges, social services, and land use planning and zoning.
City Light Ross Dam Construction Photograph Albums
Photographs documenting the construction of Ross Dam on the Skagit River, 1938-1948.
Charles T. Royer Departmental Correspondence
Charles T. Royer Legal Subject Files
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, copies of legislation, and City Attorney opinions relating to City-involved litigation, ordinances and codes, and subjects of a legal nature. Also included are some records from Mayor Wes Uhlman's legal staff. Primarily the records of Hugh Spitzer. Topics covered include personnel issues, Westlake Mall, Interstate 90, police intelligence, affirmative action, gay issues, and condo conversions.
Charles T. Royer Communications and Public Information Records
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, and reports of Mayor Royer's public information staff. Records cover topics including budgets, housing, the West Seattle Bridge, police, and transit.
City Light Load and Flow Data
Data from City Light hydroelectric projects.
City Light Skagit Hydroelectric Project Records
Records of Seattle City Light's hydroelectric projects on the Skagit River
Seattle Lighting Department Records (Series I)
Seattle City Light agency history, including files from longtime superintendent J.D. Ross.
Skagit Project Scrapbooks
Specifications and Contracts
Specifications and bid documents for public works projects in Seattle or on City owned land. Often includes plans and contracts. Includes materials on Skagit River Power Project, Cedar River Watershed, Woodland and Jefferson Parks, Seattle Center facilities, Seattle Public Library, Tolt River Watershed, selected City office buildings, Model City projects, and other City sites. Records have been sampled.
Law Department Subject Files
Correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to city legal actions and law enforcement projects. Major topics include family violence, Ross Dam, and Washington Public Power Supply System.
Phyllis Lamphere Subject Files I
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and studies relating to Lamphere's activities and interests on City Council. Prominent subjects include parks, historic preservation, utilities, West Seattle Bridges, social services, and land use planning and zoning. Also includes agendas, correspondence, reports, and draft legislation related to Lamphere's work as chair of the City Council's Intergovernmental Relations Committee.