Guide to the Seattle Mayors' Portraits
1869-2002

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Table of Contents
  Overview of the Collection
   
  Historical Note
   
  Content Description
   
Use of the Collection
   
Administrative Information
   
Detailed Description of the Collection

 

Seattle Mayors' Portraits

  Subjects

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Seattle (Wash.). Engineering Dept.
Title: Seattle Mayors' Portraits
Dates: 1869-2004 ( inclusive )
Quantity: .8 cubic foot (2 boxes)
Collection Number: 2613-24
Summary: Portraits of Seattle's mayors, 1869-2002.
Repository: Seattle Municipal Archives

PO Box 94728
600 Fourth Avenue, Floor 3
Seattle, WA 98124-4728
Phone: 206/233-7807
Email: archives@seattle.gov
http://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives

Languages: Collection materials are in English. 
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Historical Note

The Mayor is the chief executive officer of the City with responsibilities for law enforcement, appointing department heads, administering City departments and programs, and preparing and executing the City budget. Seattle's original Charter (1869) created the position of Mayor who served as ex-officio President of the Common Council. The 1875 Charter gave the Mayor a vote on Council. That was amended in 1886 to provide for a tie-breaking vote only. The 1890 Charter completely separated the Executive and Legislative branches. Mayoral terms were set at 4 years by the 1946 City Charter.

Content Description

Portraits of Seattle's mayors from 1869 to the present; all mayors, with the exception of Paul Schell (1998-2001), are represented. Many of the photographs were printed from negatives copied by the City Photographer from the Robert T. McDonald Collection at the Seattle Public Library. Other images were taken by the City Photographer. Many of the images are available in the online photograph database.

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Access :  

Records are open to the public.

Preferred Citation :  

[Title of image, date. Item number.] Seattle Mayors' Portraits, Record Series 2613-24. Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.

Administrative Information

Arrangement :

Portraits are arranged chronologically by the respective mayors' terms of office.

Related Materials :  

The Engineering Department Photographic Negatives (Record Series 2613-07) at the Seattle Municipal Archives contain other images of Seattle mayors; many images from this collection and others are available in the online photograph database.

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Seattle Mayors' Portraits, 1869-2002
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box/Folder
1/1 Henry Allen Atkins 1869-1871
1/2 J.T. Jordan 1871
1/3 Corliss P. Stone 1872
1/4 Moses R. Maddocks 1872
1/5 John Collins 1873
1/6 Henry L. Yesler 1874-1875
1/7 Bailey Gatzert 1875
1/8 Gideon A. Weed 1876-1878
1/9 Beriah Brown 1878
1/10 Orange Jacobs 1879
1/11 Leonard P. Smith 1880-1882
1/12 Henry G. Struve 1882-1884
1/13 John Leary 1884
1/14 W.H. Shoudy 1886
1/15 T.T. Minor 1887
1/16 Robert Moran 1888-1890
1/17 Harry White 1890-1892
1/18 George W. Hall 1892
1/19 J.T. Ronald 1892-1893
1/20 Byron Phelps 1894-1896
1/21 Frank Black 1896
1/22 W.D. Wood 1897
1/23 Thomas J. Humes 1897-1904
1/24 Richard Ballinger 1904-1906
1/25 William Hickman Moore 1906-1908
1/26 John F. Miller 1908-1909
1/27 Hiram C. Gill 1910-1911, 1914-1917
2/1 George W. Dilling 1911-1912
2/2 George F. Cotterill 1912-1914
2/3 Ole Hanson 1918-1919
2/4 C.B. Fitzgerald 1919-1920
2/5 Hugh M. Caldwell 1920-1922
2/6 Edwin J. Brown 1922-1926
2/7 Bertha K. Landes 1926-1928
2/8 Frank E. Edwards 1928-1931
2/9 Robert Harlin 1931-1932
2/10 John F. Dore 1932-1934, 1936-1938
2/11 Charles Smith 1934-1936
2/12 Arthur B. Langlie 1938-1941
2/13 John E. Carroll 1941
2/14 Earl Millikin 1941
2/15 William F. Devin 1942-1952
2/16 Allan Pomeroy 1952-1956
2/17 Gordon S. Clinton 1956-1964
2/18 J. Dorm Braman 1964-1969
2/19 Floyd Miller 1969
2/20 Wesley C. Uhlman 1969-1977
2/21 Charles T. Royer 1978-1989
2/22 Norman B. Rice 1990-1997
2/23 Greg Nickels 2002-

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Subjects

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

  • Corporate Names :
  • Seattle (Wash.). Mayor
  • Geographical Names :
  • Seattle (Wash.)--Politics and government
    • Form or Genre Terms :
    • Photographic prints
    • Occupations :
    • Mayors--Washington (State)--Seattle
    • Women mayors--Washington (State)--Seattle

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    Finding aid prepared by Shannon B. Lynch
    © 2004

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