Scope and Contents note The Personnel Cards document employment and personnel actions for regular and temporary employees of the City of Seattle. All cards include employee name, date of birth, City position, date appointed to City service, department, salary, and personnel actions including date of the action. Regular employee cards also include the employee's address. Personnel actions can include, but are not limited to, appointments, reappointments, termination, suspension, reclassification, transfers, salary...

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Content includes images from the Training and Development Division, Service Awards for 35 years and 20 years of service as a City employee.

Scope and Contents note Records of positions held, promotions, disciplines taken, civil service investigations, and extracurricular activities on behalf of the Fire Department. The records provide glimpses into the employees' personal lives, especially in the 1910s and 1920s, as the files include explanations for tardiness, communications with debtors, and reasons for resignations. The personnel files cover employees who worked less than a year to those who worked more than 50 years. Women began working in the...

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A register of applicants for positions in the fire and police departments. Includes name, address, age, marital status, nativity, height, weight, and number of dependents for each applicant. Also includes information on civil service examination scores and rank, certification of employment, probationary appointments, separation from service, application and examination for promotion, and general remarks. A card file system replaced the register in 1905.