General Files - Subject Index

This index identifies subject terms assigned by indexers using the Seattle City Clerk Thesaurus and lists the number of documents retrieved using subject terms from the Thesaurus. The same search can be done using the online search page and will link researchers directly to a description of the record. Researchers may also search the online index using thesaurus words in combination with words appearing anywhere in the record. Often it is useful to combine thesaurus terms with other terms appearing in the record but which do not appear in the thesaurus. Neighborhood terms are not listed in this index but are listed in a separate appendix. Neighborhoods, like other words, can be combined with subject terms and dates for more specific searches. For example, "bridges" can be combined with neighborhood names.

Accidents - 3
Administrative Procedures - 11
Aged - 3
Air Pollution - 2
Alcoholic Beverage Control - 27
Alleys - 38
Amusement Places and Devices - 8
Animal Control - 11
Animals - 3
Annexation - 5
Arson - 1
Asian Americans - 21
Athletic Fields - 1
Automobiles - 1

Banks and Lending Institutions - 5
Barges - 8
Baseball - 1
Beautification - 3
Begging - 1
Bicycles - 1
Bikeways - 1
Board of Health - 8
Bridges - 20
Building Inspection - 5
Building Permits - 36

Canada - 3
Canals - 2
Cedar River - 3
Celebrations - 13
Cemeteries - 19
Censorship - 1
Charitable Organizations - 21
Chief of Police - 4
Child Care - 5
Children - 2
Citizenship - 4
City Attorney - 7
City Charter - 24
City Clerk - 9
City Council - 37
City Employees - 57
City Hall - 4
City Officials and Agencies - 5
Coal - 3
Commercial Buildings - 7
Communicable Diseases - 7
Comptroller - 4
Construction Equipment - 3
Contracts
     and Finance - 8
     and Fire Alarms - 6
     and Fire Apparatus - 40
     and Fire Department - 9
     and Fire Stations - 15
     and Fireboats - 10
     and Grading - 22
     and Jail - 4
     and Law Enforcement - 1
     and Office Equipment - 4
     and Police Department - 1
     and Sanitary Sewers - 12
     and Street Construction - 23
     and Street Lighting - 36
     and Street Railways - 8
     and Water Supply Facilities - 7
Correctional Facilities - 2
Correctional Punishment and Rehabilitation - 3
Councilmembers - 4
Crime Prevention -
Criminal Offenses - 6

Dance Halls - 1
Disabled Persons - 6
Docks - 22
Domestic Animals - 21
Drainage - 43

Eating and Drinking Places - 15
Elected Officials - 13
Elections - 22
Electricity - 4
Elevators - 1
Elliott Bay - 2
Emergency Housing - 23
Employee Benefits - 15
Employment - 6
Employment Agencies - 99
Engineers - 7
Entertainment Industry - 3
Environmental Health - 12
Events - 4
Exhibitions - 3

Facilities - 42
Fairs - 3
Females - 16
Ferries - 2
Fireboats - 45
Firefighters - 35
Fires - 31
Fire Alarms - 28
Fire Apparatus - 100
Fire Chief - 8
Fire Codes - 5
Fire Department - 138
Fire Hydrants - 21
Fire Prevention - 43
Fire Protection - 52
Fire Stations - 56
Floods - 1
Fountains - 2
Franchises - 119
     and Street Lighting - 6
     and Street Railways - 88
     and Railroads - 13
     and Water Supply - 4

Gambling - 2
Gifts to the City - 6
Government Buildings - 6
Governmental Reorganization - 7
Great Fire - 46

Harbors - 3
Hazardous Materials - 49
Health - 6
Health Care - 3
Horses - 32
Hospitals - 14
Hours of Work - 3

Insurance - 32
Intergovernmental Relations - 9
Interlocal Agreements - 4
Internal Investigations - 15

Jail - 17

Labor - 11
Labor Supply - 4
Labor Unions - 10
Lake Washington Ship Canal - 4
Landfills - 1
Landslides - 3
Land Acquisition - 58
Law Enforcement - 12
Legislative Powers - 4
Legislative Rules - 7
Libraries - 14
Library - 18
Licenses
     and Alcoholic beverage control - 23
     and Employment Agencies - 94
     and Hazardous Materials - 28
     and Liquor Sales - 150
     and Street Vending - 23
Liquor Sales - 1
Loitering - 2

Mapping - 4
Marinas - 4
Mayor - 7
Meat Sales - 4
Milk - 1
Minority Enterprises - 17
Municipal Court - 3
Murder - 1
Music - 10

Newspapers - 19
Noise - 4
Nuisance Abatement - 17

Office Equipment - 10
Office Facilities - 10
Orphanages - 2

Parades and Processions - 7
Parks - 14
Parks Department - 3
Paving - 10
Paving Materials - 5
Pedestrians - 3
Performing Arts - 5
Personal Safety - 11
Personnel Administration
     and City Council - 5
     and City Employees - 13
     and Fire Department - 42
     and Police Department - 66
Pest Control - 1
Pioneer Square Park - 1
Pipelines - 4
Plank Roads - 94
Planning - 7
Plats - 45
Plumbing Codes - 4
Police - 34
Police Court - 1
Police Department - 111
Police Stations - 2
Political Parties - 5
Poll Tax - 2
Prisoners - 12
Property Taxes - 117
Prostitution - 7
Public Art - 3
Public Health - 21
Public Markets - 4

Race Relations - 4
Railroad Lines - 10
Railroads - 54
Records Management - 8
Recreational Facilities - 4
Regrades - 7
Residential Areas - 5
Religious Buildings - 3
Religious Institutions - 19
Reservoirs - 3
Retail Trade - 5
Rewards - 4
Right of Way - 6

Safety - 16
Schools - 3
Security Guards - 8
Sewage Disposal - 9
Sewer Replacement - 2
Shorelands - 2
Side Sewers - 8
Sidewalks - 103
Signs and Billboards - 3
Solid Waste Disposal - 11
Sports - 2
Stairways - 3
Street Lighting - 194
Street Railways - 136
Street Use Permits - 10
Street Vending - 44
Streetcars - 2
Storage Buildings - 9
Storm Sewers - 99
Surveys - 6

Taxes - 107
Telephone Systems - 7
Theaters - 7
Traffic - 4
Traffic Regulation - 4
Traffic Safety - 3
Transportation - 4
Transmission Lines - 5
Treasurer - 12
Trees - 5
Tunnels - 7
Typhoid Fever - 3

Unemployed - 1
Unemployment - 3
University of Washington - 7
Utility Agencies - 7
Utility Poles - 4
Utility Rates - 22

Vessels - 2
Voting - 2

Wages and Salaries - 62
     and Fire Department - 14
     and Police Department - 7
Walls - 6
Warehouses - 4
Water - 21
Water Department - 9
Water Fund - 4
Water Meters - 4
Water Pollution - 2
Water Supply - 82
Water Supply Facilities - 55
Wells - 1
Womens Business Enterprises - 16
Wood Products Industry - 6
Widening - 38

Zoning - 28