Scope and Contents note Moving images created by or for Seattle City Light depicts various activities and facilities at the department. The footage includes finished productions, raw footage, and outtakes. Public service announcements are also included and cover subjects about electricity conservation and safety, and City Light's apprenticeship training program.Other content documents the history of Seattle City Light along with the planning and construction of various projects including substations,...

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Charts, figures, statistics, performance curves, schematics, diagrams, cost estimates, computations, graphs, property agreements, and reservoir capacity figures on the Skagit River Power Development Project and the Cedar Falls Power Plant. Includes data for the Gorge Powerhouse and Diablo Dam.

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Slides documenting the development of City Light's public power facilities including dams, power houses, transmission lines, substations, and methods of wiring.

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Correspondence, specifications, estimates, and drawings relating to the construction of the aqueduct, pipelines, chlorinating plant, and dam at Lake Youngs.

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An ordinance appropriating out of the General Fund of the Town of South Park the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars for the improvement of the dyke.

Scope and Contents note These scrapbooks are a collection of newspaper clippings from daily newspapers, as well as engineering and construction journals, regarding the Skagit River dam projects. They were compiled by William B. Wolfendale, the principal engineer for City Light on the dam projects. The articles are primarily about construction progress and issues, including some technical articles. Repeated topics include: Diablo Dam, Ross Dam, dam designer John Savage, Yangtze River dam, and Wolfendale's retirement...