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to a historylink.org article on Thomas W. Prosch "this chronological history of Seattle from 1850-1897...was still unpublished when he died.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...
Sales brochure for real estate properties in the Seattle tidelands. Includes history of Seattle tidelands and descriptions of tidelands in other cities.
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...
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...
Survey conducted by the Seattle Urban League to investigate the racial attitudes of residents of Seattle's Broadview neighborhood, in response to a 1948 incident in which residents circulated petitions requesting that a biracial family be forced to...
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.
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.
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...