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Over 300 maps dating from the 1890s to the 1970s depicting land acquisition of property in the City's Cedar River Watershed and pipelines.

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Public documents and research notes that were gathered in the process of writing a history of the Seattle Water Department.

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Aerial photographs of Seattle Watershed and Pipeline.

Scope and Contents note Water Department photographs depicting projects and property. The negatives date from 1899-1978. Over 3400 are digitized and available on the digital collections site; the majority date from 1900 to the mid-1940s. The over 8,000 unscanned negatives date from the mid-1940s to 1978; descriptions of negatives are available in the finding aid. Topics include: personnel, employees working, the Cedar River Watershed, Tolt watershed, reservoirs, pipeline and watermain installations and repair,...