Seattle Sawdust: Bits and Pieces from the Seattle Collection
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. Seattle is literally built on sawdust. As pioneer mill owner Henry Yesler told historian Hubert Howe Bancroft, "We commenced sawing wood under a shed in March '53; the saw dust we filled swamps with, and the slabs we built a wharf with." This collection presents some of Seattle's historical "sawdust" - unique and interesting materials from The Seattle Public Library's Seattle Collection.
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Seattle and Lake Washington Waterway Co. South Canal Subsidy Documents, 1895
Documents relating to the Seattle and Lake Washington Waterway Company's contract to fill the tidelands and construct and the ship canal along a southern route through Beacon Hill.
Identifier: spl_saw_3213307
Date: 1895
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Is the Lake Washington Canal A Necessity or Desirable?, ca. 1909
Pamphlet tracing the history of attempts to procure local and national support for a canal through Lake Union and advising that the cost to Seattleites may be too high to make the canal a viable project. Comments on the canal at the back include ""What Shipping Men Say,"" ""What Manufacturers Say,"" ""What Business Men Say,"" ""What a Lake Washington Homeowner Says"" and ""A Letter from the President of the American Civic Association""
Identifier: spl_saw_1893738
Date: 1909
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