25 results for: City of Seattle, Engineering Department
Architectural drawing
Improvement of Third Avenue et al Lighting System, Seattle, July 1927
The 1927 map pictured here was created by the Seattle City Engineer's office. It shows a roughly 12-block area of downtown Seattle between Yesler Way and Jackson Street, and Third Avenue and Fifth Avenue, on land platted as D. S. Maynard's Addition to the City of Seattle. The map shows the locations where new posts and street lamps were to…
ID Number:1952.986.57.6
Date:1927
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Three men near concrete mixer and concrete transport car, circa 1925
This photograph documents a City of Seattle Engineering Department project involving construction of a truck sewer and subsewers as part of improvements along Oregon Street. Three men pose near a concrete transport car on rails which will bring wet concrete from the mixer to various points along the sewer tunnel under construction. Numbered on mount: 2A
ID Number:1968.4524.1
Date:Circa 1925
Photograph
Men in concrete transport car on tracks over sewer construction, circa 1925
This photograph documents a City of Seattle Engineering Department project involving construction of a truck sewer and subsewers as part of improvements along Oregon Street. The transport car was used to carry loads of wet concrete from the mixer to various points along the sewer tunnel under construction. Numbered on mount: 4A
ID Number:1968.4524.3
Date:Circa 1925
Photograph
Baba Jeanne Mangaoang speaking at Congressional hearing, Washington, D.C., June 16, 1954
Baba Jeanne "B.J." (Sears) Mangaoang (1915-2007) was a Seattle woman who remained active in Communist Party (CP) politics, the fight against the Red Scare, and advocated for peace and social justice throughout her life. She was introduced to the CP as a student at the University of Washington in the early 1930s, formally joining the Party in 1938. She worked…
ID Number:2000.107.046.27.01
Date:1954
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Elaine Ko and Cindy Domingo speaking at press conference, Seattle, January 25, 1983
Cindy Domingo (b. 1953) is a longtime community activist in Seattle. She was active in the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), the Washington State Rainbow Coalition, the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes, the Center for Social Justice, and organized Seattle International Women’s Day events. Domingo also created the U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration after attending the 1995 World…
ID Number:2000.107.050.32.01
Date:1983
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Elaine Ko speaking at press conference, Seattle, August 5, 1982
Elaine Ko (b. 1954) is a community activist in Seattle who has worked for decades on behalf of the Asian and Pacific Islander community, immigrants, refugees, women, and victims of domestic violence in the Puget Sound area. In 2006, Ko succeeded Bob Santos as Executive Director of the Inter*Im Community Development Association in Seattle's Chinatown - International District (previously the…
ID Number:2000.107.107.16.01
Date:1982
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Temporary Stone Way Bridge, Seattle, May 4, 1916
The Stone Way Bridge was a temporary bridge that opened May 31, 1911 over the northwest corner of Lake Union, connecting Westlake Avenue on the south shore to Stone Way on the north. The bridge was in service until June 15, 1917, when the Fremont Bridge, built as part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal project, opened to traffic.This image of…
ID Number:2006.7.50
Date:1916
Photograph
Lake Washington ship canal during construction, Seattle, May 4, 1916
After five and a half years of construction, the Lake Washington Ship Canal opened on May 8, 1917. It connects Lake Washington, Lake Union, Salmon Bay, and Puget Sound. This image looking west from Fremont shows the construction of the Lake Washington ship canal. Prominent in the center of the frame to the right of the canal is the distinctive…
ID Number:2006.7.100
Date:1916
Cartographic material
Operation Northwest Passage, Seattle Civil Defense Corps, July 10, 1951
World War II, which ended with the atomic bombing of Japan, was followed by the period known as the Cold War, a rivalry between the United States and the USSR. Fearing the spread of communism and the possibility of Russian nuclear attack, the U. S. organized and promoted an active nationwide civil defense program. The Seattle Civilian Defense Corps created…
ID Number:2018.3.1
Date:1951
Cartographic material
Map Showing Buildings Along Waterfront Between Marion Street & Yesler Avenue, Seattle, circa 1895
Seattle in the late nineteenth century was a rapidly growing city, aided in no small part by the 1883 connection with the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NPRR). In 1890 the city's population doubled from the previous year to 40,000, boosted by the influx of people who saw opportunity in rebuilding after Seattle's Great Fire. Expansion led to conflicts over the…
ID Number:2019.3.9
Date:Circa 1895