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
2613-24
Seattle
(Wash.). Engineering Dept.
Engineering Department Seattle Mayors'
Portraits
1869-2004
.8 cubic foot
2 boxes
Portraits of Seattle's mayors,
1869-2002. Collection materials are in
English.
Bertha Knight Landes, Mayor of Seattle, 1926-1928. Seattle Municipal
Archives.
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.
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.
Portraits are arranged chronologically by the respective mayors' terms
of office.
Records are open to the public.
[Title of image, date. Item number.] Seattle Mayors' Portraits, Record
Series 2613-24. Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.
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.
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.
Seattle
(Wash.). Mayor
Seattle
(Wash.)--Politics and government
Government and Politics
Photographs
Seattle
Photographic
prints
Mayors--Washington
(State)--Seattle
Women
mayors--Washington (State)--Seattle
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Seattle Mayors'
Portraits
1869-2002
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-