Website of the Week

Seattle Municipal Archives, http://www.cityofseattle.net/CityArchives/default.htm

The Archives is responsible for "identifying, acquiring, arranging, describing, preserving, and making accessible . . . the records of enduring value created or received by City agencies and elected officials." The Archives are open to the public and contain a wealth of interesting resources, including records from:

• mayors
• city council members and committees
• other elected officials and department heads

and records about:

• election results
• Pike Place Market
• parks and recreation
• the Great Fire of 1889.

More than 47,000 photographs are found in the Archives, searchable online and with digital images.