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Street Railways

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 76 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

C. S. Hilstad and Birdie Hilstad vs. The City of Seattle, 1928

 File — Box 62, Folder: 6
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Municipal Street Railway System Chief Engineer's Records

 Series
Identifier: 5701-01
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and studies relating to planning, routing, rehabilitation of the system, and trackage and equipment. These are the files of M.D Anderberg.

Dates: 1920-1942

City of West Seattle City Clerk's Files

 Series
Identifier: 9190-03
Scope and Contents note

Administrative records of West Seattle filed with the City Clerk. Includes contracts, bonds, correspondence, city officials' reports, franchises, oaths of office, petitions, resolutions, and bids and proposals. Filed alphabetically by subject or record type.

Dates: 1902-1907

City of Columbia City Clerk's Files

 Series
Identifier: 9112-03
Scope and Contents note Administrative records of the City of Columbia filed with the City Clerk. They cover the period from incorporation in 1893 to annexation in 1907 with a few records relating to completion of local improvements in 1913. Materials include Council resolutions, committee reports, City Attorney opinions, contracts, correspondence, franchises, city officials' reports, local improvement district bonds, mayor's messages, oaths of office, petitions, ordinances, bonds, and bills and receipts. Arranged...
Dates: 1893-1913

D. W. Joyner and Isabelle Joyner, his wife vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1927

 File — Box 59, Folder: 1
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Dorothy M. Green, Administratrix of the Estate of Carroll B. Green, deceased vs. City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1927

 File — Box 58, Folder: 8
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Edna Simmons, a minor, by Edward Simmons, her guardian ad litem vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation of the first class, 1929

 File — Box 67, Folder: 6
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Edwin P. Whiting, Executor of the Estate of Sarah F. Whiting, Deceased vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1927

 File — Box 61, Folder: 6
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Einar Anderson vs. George C. Grandy and Alma M. Grandy, his wife; The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1929

 File — Box 66, Folder: 3
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Ella V. Humphreys, et vir. vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation

 File — Box 67, Folder: 3
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

E.M. Neils and E.E. Markham vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, and H.W. Carroll, as City Comptroller and ex-officio City Clerk thereof, Thomas G. Hitt and Chas. D. Donnelly, 1935

 File — Box 79, Folder: 10
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Emily Louise Eastwood vs. City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1931 - 1932

 File — Box 73, Folder: 3
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Evelyn Hilstad, a minor, by C.S. Hilstad, Guardian ad Litem vs. The City of Seattle, 1928

 File — Box 62, Folder: 7
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Franchise Reports

 Series
Identifier: 1802-B2
Scope and Contents note

Statements by franchise holders including name, character of franchise, length, date originally granted, original holder of franchise, date of franchise transfer (if applicable), officers of company or corporation, ordinance numbers granting franchise, and other information concerning the franchise. The bulk of reports relate to railroad and street railway franchises, but also include telephone and telegraph services, utilities, and fire alarm systems.

Dates: 1898-1986

Frieda Hohman vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1934

 File — Box 76, Folder: 6
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

George E. Bradshaw; Daniel Lynn Fisher, by his Guardian ad Litem, Thomas A. Matthews; and Melvin R. DeVore as Administrator of the Estate of Fae Devore, deceased, vs. City of Seattle, a municipal corporation; and Northern Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation, 1952 - 1953

 File — Box 100, Folder: 5
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

G.P. James vs. The City of Seattle, 1931

 File — Box 71, Folder: 6
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Great Northern Railway Company, a corporation, vs. City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1934

 File — Box 76, Folder: 5
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Haakon Fredericks vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation of the first class, 1930

 File — Box 68, Folder: 6
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

H.O. Poland vs. City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1939

 File — Box 83, Folder: 7
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

In the Matter of the Application of the Sound Transit Company, a corporation, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate motor vehicles for the transportation of passengers between Roosevelt Heights and the City of Seattle., 1923

 File — Box 47, Folder: 4
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Isaac Skidmore vs. The City of Seattle, 1926

 File — Box 56, Folder: 3
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

J. G. Von Herberg vs. The City of Seattle, Ed L. Terry as Treasurer and Harry Carroll as Comptroller, of the City of Seattle, and Puget Sound Power and Light Company, 1928

 File — Box 65, Folder: 5
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

J. L. Osborn vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation; W. A. Osborn and Iva Osborn, his wife vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation; J. L. Osborn and Rose Osborn, his wife vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1927

 File — Box 59, Folder: 8
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Jessye Viola Woodruff, Administratrix of the Estate of Warren H. Woodruff, deceased vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1926

 File — Box 57, Folder: 8
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

J.G. Von Herberg vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, ED. L. Terry, as Treasurer, and Harry W. Carroll, as Comptroller of the City of Seattle, and Puget Sound Power & Light Company, a corporation, 1930

 File — Box 69, Folder: 5
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

John E. Burkheimer and Ruby W. Burkheimer vs. City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1931

 File — Box 70, Folder: 1
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Johnson Crozier vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation; Arno Nielsen vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation; and Clarence Jensen, et ux. vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1931

 File — Box 70, Folder: 5
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Joseph Butcher, by Opal Oppie, his guardian ad litem vs. The City of Seattle, 1927

 File — Box 58, Folder: 2
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Kathlyn Tobin, Appellant, vs. the City of Seattle, Respondent., 1923

 File — Box 47, Folder: 2
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Kathlyn Tobin vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1926

 File — Box 57, Folder: 7
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Leo Murphy and Rose Murphy, his wife vs. William Schwartz and B. E. Schwartz, doing business as Eagle Cab Company, the Mutual Union Insurance Company, a corporation, Henry Isings and Bertha Isings, his wife, 1927

 File — Box 59, Folder: 6
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Mary Heva vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1928

 File — Box 62, Folder: 5
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Mary Holm vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1930

 File — Box 68, Folder: 9
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Mary Jones, as Administratrix of the Estate of Clarence J. Jones, deceased vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, Dominick Soraci, and Dorothy M. Soraci, his wife, 1927

 File — Box 58, Folder: 11
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Municipal Street Railway System Annual Reports

 Series
Identifier: 1802-H4
Scope and Contents note

The Municipal Street Railway System annual reports date from 1919 to 1937, although reports for some years are missing. Two reports exist for 1919; the second is a report on the finances of the Municipal Street Railway System by the Comptroller. The reports include financial information (in its first year of operation, the System operated at a loss of 18,000 dollars) and information on routes, including schedule changes and revenue, as well as other operating statistics.

Dates: 1919-1937

Old Colony Trust Company, as trustee vs. The City of Seattle, County of King, W. W. Shields, as Treasurer, and Matt Starwich, as Sheriff, of King County, 1926

 File — Box 56, Folder: 5
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Oscar Engstrom, Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. The City of Seattle (a Municipal Corporation), Defendant-Respondent. H. F. Tonkin, Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. The City of Seattle (a Municipal Corporation), Defendant-Respondent. , 1916-1917

 File — Box 31, Folder: 3
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Patrick H. Dolan and Mary L. Dolan vs Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company and the City of Seattle, 1913 - 1913

 File — Box 25, Folder: 7
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

[Photographs accompanying Communication of Earl M. Eba relating to transportation in Rainier Valley. Not scanned. CF 150819 ], 1936 - 1936

 File — Box 10, Folder: 4
Found in: 1802-0P, Comptroller/Clerk File photographs

Puget Sound Power and Light Company, a corporation vs. J. G. Von Herberg, City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, Ed. L. Terry, as Treasurer, and Harry W. Carroll, as Comptroller of the City of Seattle, October 1928

 File — Box 64, Folder: 1
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Puget Sound Power & Light Company and the City of Seattle, Plaintiffs in Error, vs. the County of King, Frank W. Hull, as Assessor of King County; Norman M. Wardall, as Auditor of King County, and Wm. A. Gaines, as Treasurer of King County, Defendants in Error., 1922 - 1923

 File — Box 46, Folder: 4
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Puget Sound Power & Light Company, Appellant, vs. City of Seattle, County of King, W. W. Shields, as Treasurer of King County, and Matt W. Starwich, as Sheriff of King County, Appellees., 1925 - 1925

 File — Box 53, Folder: 1
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Puget Sound Power & Light Company (formerly named Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company), Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. the City of Seattle et al., Defendants-Respondents, the City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, Cross-Complainant-Appellant, vs. Puget Sound Power & Light Company, et al., Cross-Defendants-Respondents., 1922

 File — Box 45, Folder: 7
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Puget Sound Power & Light Company, Petitioner (Plaintiff), vs. S. B. Asia, Daniel W. Bass, John H. Carter, Herman Chapin, Pierre P. Ferry, T. N. Haller, Paul C. Harper, Roy J. Kinnear, W. W. Miller, Emanuel Rosenburg, R. C. Southworth, J. W. Townsend, David Whitcomb and Worrall Wilson, Respondents (Defendants)., 1921 - 1922

 File — Box 46, Folder: 3
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Puget Sound Power & Light Company, Plaintiff, vs. the City of Seattle et al., Defendants., 1924

 File — Box 51, Folder: 1
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Puget Sound Power & Light Company vs. The City of Seattle, 1927

 File — Box 60, Folder: 1
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company Maps and Property Inventory

 Series
Identifier: 1802-D8
Scope and Contents note The Municipal Street Railway System was formed in 1919 when the City purchased the Seattle street car rail lines of the Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company, Seattle Division. Voters approved the purchase on November 5, 1918. The Company was owned by Stone & Webster, based in Massachusetts, which purchased utilities and street railways in the late 1890s. Formed in 1898 by Stone & Webster, the Seattle Electric Company consolidated property and rights of small transportation...
Dates: 1918

Register of Franchise Reports

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 1805-02
Scope and Contents note

Annual franchise statements required by Ordinance 4953. Includes name of franchise holder, character of franchise, length, date granted, to whom originally granted, date transferred if applicable, whether holder is person or corporation, owners/officers, ordinance granting franchise, and comments. Franchises include telephone and telegraph, railroads, electric street railway, water systems, electric power lines, gas lines, and fire alarm systems among others.

Dates: 1898-1911

R.H. Dahline and Edna Dahline vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1931

 File — Box 70, Folder: 6
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Solomon Zettler vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1929

 File — Box 67, Folder: 9
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

State ex rel. Frank Edwards vs. The Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for King County and Hon. Malcolm Douglas, Judge thereof, 1931 - 1932

 File — Box 73, Folder: 4
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

State of Washington, ex rel., Glen Dunbar, Relator and Respondent, vs. the City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, Carl H. Reeves, as Superintendent of Public Utilities thereof, and D. W. Henderson, as Superintendent of Railways thereof, Respondents and Appellants., 1922

 File — Box 45, Folder: 10
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

State of Washington ex rel Tacoma Railway and Power Company, Plaintiff, v. The Public Service Commission of the State of Washington, E. F. Blaine, Chairman, and Arthur A. Lewis and Frank R. Spinning, Commissioners, Respondents., 1918

 File — Box 37, Folder: 4
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

State of Washington ex rel. William Buchanan, vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation; Edward Clifford, Edith E. Gattis, and George P. Listman, as Civil Service Commissioners of the City of Seattle; and J.D. Ross, Superintendent of Lighting Department of the City of Seattle, 1931 - 1932

 File — Box 73, Folder: 10
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

State of Washington vs Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway Company, 1911 - 1911

 File — Box 23, Folder: 2
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

State v. General Electric et al, 1962-1973

 File — Box 7, Folder: 10
Found in: 4402-01, Litigation Records

The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, Harry W. Carroll, as City Comptroller and Ex-Officio City Clerk thereof, and Ed. L. Terry, as City Treasurer thereof, Appellants, vs. Puget Sound Power & Light Company, a corporation, Appellee., 1924

 File — Box 50, Folder: 6
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation vs. Puget Sound Power & Light Company, 1927

 File — Box 60, Folder: 6
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

The City of Seattle vs. Puget Sound Power & Light Company, 1926

 File — Box 56, Folder: 6
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

The Public Service Commission of Washington ex rel Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company, Plaintiff, vs. the City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, Defendant., 1917

 File — Box 34, Folder: 11
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

The Seattle Electric Co., a Corporation, Respondent, vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, George W. Dilling, as Mayor, A. L. Valentine, as Superintendent of Public Utilities, and R. S. Pierce, as city Attorney, Appellants. , 1913-1914

 File — Box 26, Folder: 14
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

The Seattle Electric Company, Complainant, vs. The City of Seattle, et al., Respondents., 1919

 File — Box 38, Folder: 2
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

The State of Washington, ex rel., P. C. Lennon, Respondent, vs. J. Y. C. Kellogg, Burt A. Northrup and Ralph McCullough, as they are the Civil Service Commission of the City of Seattle, Appellants., 1922

 File — Box 45, Folder: 11
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

The State of Washington, Ex Rel. Philo Howard vs. The City of Seattle, et al., 1929

 File — Box 67, Folder: 7
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

The State of Washington, ex rel. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation vs. William Shields, as Treasurer of King County, a municipal corporation of the State of Washington, and Ex-officio Tax Collector of the City of Seattle, 1926

 File — Box 57, Folder: 5
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

The State of Washington, on the relation of C. E. Raines, and others, Plaintiffs, vs. the City of Seattle, a municipal corporation; Frank E. Boyle, Donna E. Baker, and T. H. Bolton, as Civil Service Commission of the City of Seattle; D. W. Henderson, as Superintendent of the Seattle Municipal Street Railway, Defendants. A. H. Force, Intervener., 1925 - 1925

 File — Box 52, Folder: 4
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

The State of Washington on the Relation of The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, Respondent, vs. Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company, a Corporation, Appellant., 1919

 File — Box 38, Folder: 4
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

T.M. Park vs. The City of Seattle, 1930

 File — Box 68, Folder: 10
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Town of South Park City Clerk's Files

 Series
Identifier: 9174-03
Scope and Contents note

Administrative records of South Park filed with the City Clerk. Materials include contracts, claims, bonds, correspondence, city officials' reports, oaths of office, petitions, and tax statements. Records relate to local improvements, franchise operations, elections, and licensing of saloons and sporting exhibitions.

Dates: 1902-1907

George Benson Transportation Subject Files

 Series
Identifier: 4614-05
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, reports, studies, committee minutes, news releases, and notes relating to City transportation and traffic issues. The bulk of the records concern reestablishing the electric trolley system and developing the Waterfront Streetcar.

Dates: 1972-1987

W D Wood, A W Hastie and W E Parker vs City of Seattle, 1900

 File — Box 5, Folder: 3
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Walter C. Woodward vs. City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1926

 File — Box 57, Folder: 9
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

W.D. Thomson vs. The City of Seattle, a municipal corporation, 1931

 File — Box 72, Folder: 7
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

William R. Crawford, Plaintiff, vs. Seattle, Renton and Southern Railway Company, et al, Defendants and In the Matter of the Petition of The City of Seattle for Allowance of Claim - The City of Seattle, Appellant, vs. Scott Calhoun and Joseph Porkin as Receivers, and William R. Stirling, et al, constituting a Bondholders' Committee, Respondents., 1917

 File — Box 33, Folder: 5
Found in: 4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs

Placeholder text The Seattle Municipal Archives holdings document the history, development, and activities of the agencies and elected officials of the City of Seattle. Descriptions of selected records are also available through the Library of Congress National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections and through Archives West.

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