Sales brochure for real estate properties in the Seattle tidelands. Includes history of Seattle tidelands and descriptions of tidelands in other cities.
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...
University of Washington; University District (Seattle, Wash.); Land Use--Washington (State)--Seattle; City Planning--Washington (State)--Seattle; Neighborhoods--Washington (State)--Seattle; Campus Planning--Washington (State)--Seattle; Residential...
A study of the effects of the University of Washington on the residential land uses of the nearby University District.
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...
Social Surveys--Washington (State)--Bremerton;
Social Surveys--Washington (State)--Seattle;
Social Values--Washington (State)--Seattle;
Social Values--Washington (State)--Bremerton;
Motion Picture Theaters--Washington (State)--Seattle;
Motion...
Cover title: "Summary of findings: laws and ordinances ... courts ... local institutions ... City detention hospital ... county jail ... movies ...dance halls and cabarets ... women in industry"--Leaves 5-6. Statement of Responsibility: compiled...
Rainier, Mount (Wash.); Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.);
Collection of colored photographs of Mount Rainier National Park. Photographs taken by F. H. Nowell, Curtis & Miller, H. L. Toles, Asahel Curtis, and Romans Photographic Company. Booklet is undated; some photographs are copyrighted 1913.
A study of population trends and demographic characteristics of Seattle. The author, Calvin F. Schmid, was a University of Washington sociology professor.
Histories of Seattle area churches, arranged by denomination. The author, Ida Grace Corey, was a former society editor of the Seattle Times and donated the book to the Seattle Public Library in 1940. The Seattle Times reported on the donation:...
Cookbook for newlywed Seattle women, featuring numerous advertisements. "Seattle Brides Cook Book was published locally by the Union Advertising Company around 1911, and The Brides' Cook Book had the imprint of San Francisco's Pacific Coast...
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...
Tabulation of statistics from the 1920 United States Federal Census, showing total population and population by sex and race for precincts and enumeration districts of Seattle. Racial categories are White, Negro, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and...
Hillaire, Joseph; Totem Poles; Kōbe-shi (Japan)--Pictorial Works
Lummi carver Joseph Hillaire was commissioned to create a story pole for Seattle's sister city of Kobe, Japan, in 1961. This album documents his trip to Kobe to install and dedicate the pole. Hillaire was accompanied on the trip by Seattle Mayor...
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.
A compilation of Washington State place names of Native American origin, written by Edmond Meany and published by the Hyatt-Fowells School, a Seattle business college. The author, Edmond Meany (1862-1935), was a University of Washington history...
Seattle Public Library--Fremont Branch; Libraries and Community--Washington (State)--Seattle; Branch Libraries--Washington (State)--Seattle; Neighborhoods--Washington (State)--Seattle; Fremont (Seattle, Wash.);
Study of the Fremont neighborhood and Fremont branch library conducted in 1979 by The Seattle Public Library. From Introduction of document: "The Northwest Region staff of Seattle Public Library will study the Fremont community to gain realistic...