Annual recapitulation of expenditures for acquisition, maintenance and operation, and improvements for parks, boulevards, playfields, bathing beaches, and recreation centers. Also includes notes on how property was acquired, type of funds used for expenditures, size of property, and total expenditures prior to 1909.

Minutes of the Board of Park Commissioners, 1890 to 1991. Includes information on parks improvements, use of Parks lands, and budget information.

Series contains resolutions passed by the Commissioners authorizing the expenditure of funds, accepting donations of funds and gifts, expressing the Board's intent to undertake park improvements, granting permission for use of facilities, and conveying Board policy. Prior to 1922, the test of resolutions was included in the Board minutes.

Brochures, guides, and flyers about the park system, programs, policies and specific parks and facilities. Also includes ephemera related to the Parks Department and its programs.

Brochures, flyers, guides, and event schedules from the zoo. Also includes some zoo postcards, maps, and ephemera.

Slides and negatives of the Burke-Gilman Trail and other Seattle parks.

Correspondence to and from the City Attorney. Includes requests from City agencies for legal opinions and advice.

Contents include various parks and P-patches in Seattle.

Records and photographs relating to Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation, 1876-1979, compiled by Don Sherwood.

Records and photographs compiled by Ben Evans, documenting history of recreation programs within the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation as well as the history and philosophy of recreation programs nationally.

Survey books provide the calculations used to update parks maps and plans. They contain detailed elevations, distances, and bearings from specific survey points. Includes Field Survey Books 62-384.

Visual materials related to Forward Thrust planning and projects.

Photographic prints, negatives, and slides related to parks, activities in parks, and Parks Department personnel.Images are arranged alphabetically by subject and are a mix of prints, negatives and slides. Some are undated. Ninety-three images are digitized and available online.

Photographic prints and slides related to the Madrona Dance Studio, classroom activities, theatre productions, concerts, and craft classes. Also included are Dance Studio schedules, newsletters, correspondence, and draft brochures.

Newsletters and other serial publications produced by the zoo. Note that the external newsletter "At The Zoo" is in Series 8600-10.

Correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to activities of the City's publicly owned golf courses. Includes statistics on rounds of golf played, receipts, rates and fees, and concessions. Also included are photographs, diagrams of courses, material on cooperative arrangements with public school golf teams, course regulations, and policies of the City's recreational golf program.

Records concerning the management of Seattle's municipal golf courses.

Includes incomplete 1955-2003 run of monthly employee newsletter containing internal departmental news; notices of employee activities, promotions, and retirements; and announcements of Park Department-sponsored events. Also includes other newsletters published by the department for the general public. Most newsletters from the zoo and aquarium are filed separately.

Newspaper clippings and typed reports of sports and recreational activities sponsored by the Parks Department at its playgrounds and playfields, and in its fieldhouses.

Records of a Seattle visual arts school and studio.