Skagit River Railway
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
City Light News Clippings Scrapbooks
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1201-04
Scope and Contents note
These scrapbooks are a collection of newspaper clippings in date order about Seattle City Light as well as national and international news regarding hydroelectric power and electricity. Some repeated topics include: City Light rates, wages, Works Progress Administration funding, advertisements, the proposed consolidation of City Light and Puget Sound Power and Light, promotions, retirements, and the Skagit River Project. Volume 1 contains clippings from 1935 to 1936. Volume 2 contains...
Dates:
1924-1970; 1935-1949
Maps, Plans and Drawings
Series
Identifier: 1802-C9
Scope and Contents note
Architectural drawings and maps relating especially to City-owned property. Also includes maps and drawings of plats and housing developments. Of particular interest are blue prints of Sick's Stadium; and Zoning Commission maps that accompanied the first zoning code in Seattle. Also included are plans for Memorial Stadium, Green Lake Aqua Theatre, City Light Building on Third and Marion and City Hall. Architects include George Wellington Stoddard and Associates, Earl W. Morrison, and William...
Dates:
1910-2000
Robert E. Whitney, as Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Wendell R. Whitney, deceased vs. City of Seattle, a municipal corporation , 1950 - 1952
File — Box 99, Folder: 2
Found in:
4404-01, Supreme Court Briefs
Seattle Lighting Department Records (Series I)
Series
Identifier: 1200-01
Abstract
Seattle City Light agency history, including files from longtime superintendent J.D. Ross.
Dates:
1902-1960
Skagit River Railway Survey Books
Series
Identifier: 1802-E7
Scope and Contents note
Transit books, level books, and peg books of levels compiled by city engineers during surveys of the Skagit River Railway. Also includes survey books of east side transmission lines of the Skagit River Power Project. Books contain surveyors notes and drawings. F.F. Nicholas was project engineer. Volume Five of the Level Books includes cover title "Precise Levels Diablo to Rip Raps."
Dates:
1926
Skagit Tour Records
Series
Identifier: 1208-01
Scope and Contents note
Records of City Light's Skagit Project Tours from Rockport to Diablo Dam including brochures, excursion reservation forms, correspondences (private, groups, and clubs), tour itineraries, tour write-ups, trip narratives, visitor's lists and impressions, tour music, Newhalem trail and list of trees and shrubs. Also includes documents also pertaining to tour accounting, classification, work orders, employee positions and duties, purchases and annual reports, and files from Edward M. Kemoe, City...
Dates:
1911-1942; Majority of material found within 1929-1942