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Seattle Municipal Archives Finding Aids

Signs and Billboards

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Board of Public Works Miscellaneous Subject Files

 Series
Identifier: 0601-01
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: 1896-1977

City Light Advertising Graphics

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 1210-02
Scope and Contents note This collection is a group of materials which appear to have come from the advertising or graphic design department. The collection consists of finished advertisements, as well as incomplete designs. Of note are a reproduction of the Seattle City Light building's frieze, titled The Evolution of Light; elevation drawings of the Yesler substation; a pen and ink drawing of a power house by City employee Walt Williams; and drawings of a Ross turbine. Also included is a scrapbook, dated 1958,...
Dates: 1958-1977

City Light Advertising Materials

 Series
Identifier: 1210-01
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, reports, articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and advertisements relating to the Skagit River, power rates, and City Light advertisements.

Dates: 1939-1995