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Seattle Municipal Archives
600 Fourth Avenue, Room 104
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 233-7807 or (206) 684-8353
E-mail: archives@seattle.gov
http://www.cityofseattle.net/CityArchives/

Series Title:      Ordinance Codification Project, 1935-1936
                          Record Series 1801-16
Volume:             .2 cubic foot
Description:      Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and financial records relating to the WPA Project (#201) to codify Seattle City ordinances.

Series Title:      Sanitary Survey Land Use Project, 1938
                          Record Series 2613-03
Volume:             .4 cubic foot
Description:      Original tracings of land use and zoning district maps and mile square charts including types of occupancies, occupancy and street acreage, and zone distributions of acreage. Also includes Kroll Map sections of zoning districts. The Sanitary Survey was a Works Progress Administration project (#5638) to collect data on the "health, welfare and comfort of citizens" to assist in planning for "the proper, orderly and economic development of this region." This series represents only the land use data of the survey.

Series Title:      Engineering Department Field Survey Time Books, 1932-1961
                          Record Series 2613-04
Volume:             4.4 cubic feet
Description:       Daily time books for survey crews. Includes date, weather conditions, names of crew and job, work order and ordinance numbers, resolution and LID numbers, name and nature of job, survey book used, page, time on survey, name of street or avenue, and nature of work (levels, cross sections, footings, etc). Also notes whether job is a WPA project.

Series Title:      Engineering Unrecorded Subject Files
                          Record Series 2602-02
Volume:             Specific folders relating to WPA
Description:       Records relating to Green Lake and a reports on WPA Projects 667, 4110, 5638 which includes the Sanitary Survey Sewer Card Correction Water Pollution, Underground Waters Research, Topography Green Lake Algae Control.

Series Title:      Don Sherwood Parks History Collection
                          Record Series 5801-01
Volume:             Specific folders relating to WPA.
Description:       Records relating to WPA projects on slide control and drainage at Hamilton Park and training people as recreation workers.

Series Title:     Photograph Collection
Volume:            149 images
Description:      WPA-related photographs, mostly taken by the Engineering Department.

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