Seattle Municipal Archives

Seattle Municipal Archives Processing Archivist Julie Kerssen describes a Central File from the Seattle Fire Department on a serial arsonist from 1935 who was nicknamed the "Pacific Coast Firebug."

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Seattle Municipal Archives Processing Archivist Julie Kerssen shows us an anonymous letter written to Mayor Wesley Carl Uhlman complaining about hippies in the Pike Place Market in 1970.

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Seattle Municipal Archives Reference Archivist Jeanie Fisher describes a transcript from a hearing on salvaging waste from Seattle's garbage dumps in 1931.

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Seattle Municipal Archives Audiovisual Archivist Libby Hopfauf provides a brief overview of the Seattle Fire Department's School and Fire-Safe Education (S.A.F.E.) animated film "Big Red," produced in 1984.

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Seattle Municipal Archives City Archivist Anne Frantilla shows us a petition to repeal an ordinance effecting boundaries for cows to graze in Ballard (1905).

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Seattle Municipal Archives City Archivist Anne Frantilla describes photographs of the Olympic Foundry taken by a Seattle City Light photographer in 1965.

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Seattle Municipal Archives Reference Archivist Jeanie Fisher describes the Personal Record Files from City employees (1890-1904).

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