Sales brochure for real estate properties in the Seattle tidelands. Includes history of Seattle tidelands and descriptions of tidelands in other cities.
Reprint of article from July, 1930 issue of Harvard Business Review discussing the Denny Regrade, one of several projects to level hills in Seattle. Includes maps of Denny Hill Regrades Number One and Two.
According to a historylink.org article on Thomas W. Prosch "this chronological history of Seattle from 1850-1897...was still unpublished when he died. The manuscript of this book was typed and the typescript bound as a Works Progress Administration...
From foreword of document: "The following report summarizes a three months study of the content of comic books available for purchase in the State of Washington during the first quarter of 1954. The study was initiated by the Washington State...
Provides an alphabetical listing of Plats filed in King County, Washington, with the following details: date filed, plat volume and page number, and location.
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Article from Christmas Supplement 1889 issue of Washington Magazine, describing building construction in and economic growth of Seattle after the Great Fire of June 1889. Includes descriptions of several Seattle neighborhoods and suburbs, including...
A chronological history of Seattle restaurants written by Hattie Graham Horrocks, a Seattle pioneer. Mrs. Horrocks, a great-granddaughter of Thomas Mercer (after whom Mercer Street and Mercer Island are named), wrote about 18 manuscripts on Pacific...
A study of population trends and demographic characteristics of Seattle. The author, Calvin F. Schmid, was a University of Washington sociology professor.
Typescript of memoir written by Jesse Jackson, the "mayor"of Seattle's Hooverville, a homeless encampment which stood from 1931 to 1941 at the site of the former Skinner and Eddy Shipyard in Seattle's industrical district. This typescript was...
Seattle Public Schools history textbook. The author, James Willis Sayre, "was a longtime resident of Seattle -- a journalist, arts promoter, and local historian whose work spanned more than five decades during the city's most explosive period of...