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...

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...

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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."