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Civil Defense Documents, 1942-1964
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Seattle (Wash.). City Clerk
- Title
- Civil Defense Documents
- Dates
- 1942-1964 (inclusive)19421964
- Quantity
- 0.8 cubic feet
- Collection Number
- 1802-A8
- Repository
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Seattle Municipal Archives
Seattle Municipal Archives
Office of the City Clerk
City of Seattle
PO Box 94728
98124-4728
Seattle, WA
Telephone: 2062337807
Fax: 2063869025
archives@seattle.gov - Access Restrictions
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Records are open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
The City Clerk maintains the City's legislative records, official filings, and the Seattle Municipal Archives; keeps the minutes of City Council meetings; and provides information services to City agencies and the public. Seattle's first City Charter allowed for a Clerk of the Common Council to be elected by the Council. In 1875 the position of City Clerk became elective and remained so until 1896 when the new Charter designated the Comptroller ex-officio City Clerk. The Comptroller served as City Clerk through 1992. A 1991 City Charter amendment transferred the Comptroller's function to the Department of Finance and the City Clerk's Office became a division of the Legislative Department effective in 1993.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Correspondence, reports, plans, and minutes related to civil defense activities in Seattle and King County. Includes documents pertaining to World War II defense planning by the Civilian War Commission.
Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top
A Comptroller or Clerk File (CF) can consist of correspondence, reports, petitions, contracts, agreements, etc. from elected officials, City departments, other government agencies, or the general public, which have been placed "on file" with the Office of the City Clerk (OCC). They are primarily permanent records, but also include routine material which is periodically purged. Beginning in 1987, certain archival records identified in the CF have been removed, arranged into records series, and incorporated into the ca_collections.idno of the Seattle Municipal Archives, a program of the OCC. A single accession number, 1987-048, was assigned to the transfer of the CF to the Archives. The initial transfer included records dating from 1895. These records remain in the CF series until approximately 15 years after they were filed with the OCC, at which point they are removed to the Archives. The transfer of CF records to the Archives is routine and regular. New accession numbers are not created when these transfers are made.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
[Item and date], Civil Defense Documents, Record Series 1802-A8 Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 1 | Petition Municipal Defense Commission for Free Light | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Transportation Police Chief -- Propose Ordinance for Black-outs | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Notice Lighting Support -- Air Raid Siren Billing | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition Board County Commissioner -- Council Concur with Special Wartime Session | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition Police Chief -- Home Defense Information Regulation Rental of Civic Auditorium | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition Gr Empire Way Community Club -- Air Raid Warden Activity | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition Municipal Defense Commission -- Name Change to Civilian War Commission | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition Municipal Defense Commission -- Ordinance Changes | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Transmittal Mayor Millikin - Petition Municipal Defense Commission | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition Municipal Defense Council Food Commission -- US Milk Code | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition Municipal Defense Commission -- Letter Suggesting Air Raid Facilities | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition Building Support -- Northwest Air Raid Division use of Ballard City Hall | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition Municipal Defense Commission -- Free Light to Defense Community Offices | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition for $500,000 Appropriation for Civilian Protection Division | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition Municipal Defense Commission -- Free Water for Certain Army Men | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Report of Building Supt. On Request of Northwest Zone Air Raid Wardens for Additional Use of Ballard City Hall | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Transportation Building Support -- Municipal Defense Commission, Police and Fire Station Use | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Communication Building Support -- Cost of Civil Auditorium Mobile Hospital | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition King County National Defense Council -- Civil Defense Funds | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition Police Chief -- Funds for Additional Air Raid Sirens | 1942 |
| 1 | 1 | Petition Municipal Defense Commission -- Free Light | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Protest of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) against Segregated Clubs for Service Men | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition of Terry Pettus, Editor of the New World, for an Investigation of the Civilian Protection Division of Seattle. | 1943 |
| 1 | 2 | Report of Charles S. Albert, Director of the Civilian Protection Division, on the Amount of Money Needed for 1944 | 1943 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition Mayor Devin -- Necessary legislation, Test Mobilization December 1942 | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Communication of W. Allen Grubb, Chief of the Engineers Unit of the Civilian Protection Division regarding Construction of Two Contamination Stations | 1943 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition T Smith Company, Commission Chair -- Continued Sea Area War Project Board | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition, Charles Albert, Director Civilian Protest Division -- Increase Appropriations | 1943 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition Ninth Civilian Defense Region for Auto Dock Sprinklers | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition Civil War Commission -- Salary Fund, Civilian Protest Division | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition Civil Protest Division -- Provision by Council for Division Requirements | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition Sea Air Defense Wing Fourth Fighter Command, use City Park Property | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Minutes, Seattle Area War Project Board | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Major William Gray -- Southeast Civil Defense Zone, Use of Columbia Municipal Building | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition Support of Building -- Appropriate, Mobile Hospital at Civic Auditorium | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Offer Seattle Municipal Employee Local #57 -- Assist Mobilizing Employees in War Effort | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition William Scheinder Chair Rationing Board -- Columbia Precinct Station Sugar Rationing | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition Veterans Foreign Wars (VFW) Lewis Ford #289 -- Segregated USO Facility | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition Mayor Devin -- Ordinance for City Civilian War Commission | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition County Commissioner, Three Council Members Attend Seattle War Efforts Meeting | 1942 |
| 1 | 2 | Petition of Seattle Civilian War Commission for Council Members to serve on Committees | 1942 |
| 1 | 3 | Recommendation of the Municipal League of Seattle that the Civilian Protection Division be Placed under Control of the City's Regular Protective Departments. | 1944 |
| 1 | 3 | Report of the Civilian Protection Committee on Present and Future Status of the Air Raid Warden Organization under the Civilian Protection Division. | 1944 |
| 1 | 3 | Letter, King County Commissioner -- Air Raid Organization in County / City Building | 1952 |
| 1 | 3 | Report Civil Defense Corps about Funds for Seattle Warning System | 1952 |
| 1 | 3 | Request Civil Defense BD about Mutual Aid Agreement Between Cities and Counties | 1951 |
| 1 | 3 | Report on Civil Defense Expenditures | 1951 |
| 1 | 3 | Request Mayor Devin as Civil Defense Director -- Transfer Funds from 1950 to1951 | 1950 |
| 1 | 3 | Request Civil Defense Director for Air Raid Telephone Warning System | 1953 |
| 1 | 3 | Recommendation Civil Defense Director -- First Aid Units Purchased for City | 1952 |
| 1 | 3 | Request Civil Defense Director to Purchase Equipment | 1953 |
| 1 | 3 | Request, Mayor Devin -- City Council Member Attend Civil Defense Board Meeting | 1950 |
| 1 | 3 | Government Submission, Mayor Devin -- Support Budget for Civil Defense Executive Department | 1950 |
| 1 | 3 | Request Civil Defense Director for Items | 1953 |
| 1 | 3 | Request Civil Defense Director Funds for First Aid Training Schools | 1953 |
| 1 | 3 | Request Building Superintendent to Repair Civil Defense HQ | 1953 |
| 1 | 3 | Request Civil Defense Director -- First Aid Units be Purchased by City | 1952 |
| 1 | 3 | Request Mayor for Appropriations for Police Dept -- Civil Defense Warning System | 1950 |
| 1 | 3 | Request Mayor Devin, Earmarking Emergency Funds for Civil Defense | 1951 |
| 1 | 3 | Request Mayor -- Interim Appropriations for Civil Defense Program | 1950 |
| 1 | 3 | Request Mayor's Office -- Appointment Henry Berg as Civil Defense Board Coordinator | 1950 |
| 1 | 3 | Notice of Practice Alert | 1953 |
| 1 | 4 | Civil Defense Files | 1955 |
| 1 | 5 | Request, Director of Civil Defense to Purchase Equipment for Lake Young | 1954 |
| 1 | 5 | Request Civil Defense Director for Additional Employees | 1954 |
| 1 | 5 | Request Civil Defense Director, Appropriation --Training Equipment and Sirens | 1954 |
| 1 | 5 | Request Civil Defense Director for Radio Maintenance | 1954 |
| 1 | 5 | Request Civil Defense Director for Funds for Water Purification Tablets | 1954 |
| 1 | 5 | Request, Director of Civil Defense to Purchase Auto Equipment | 1954 |
| 1 | 5 | Request Civil Defense Director for Radio Equipment for Fire Trucks | 1954 |
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence, Dave Beck, About Civil Defense Budget | 1954 |
| 1 | 5 | Request, Director of Civil Defense for Larger Budget | 1954 |
| 2 | 1 | Civil Defense Advisory Committee for Full Time Position Civil Defense Coordinator of Communications | 1955 |
| 2 | 1 | Pomeroy, About Inadequacy of Civil Defense Budget | 1955 |
| 2 | 1 | Pet, United Veterans Defense Council about Civil Defense | 1955 |
| 2 | 1 | Pet, United Veterans Defense Council about Increase of Civil Defense Budget | 1955 |
| 2 | 1 | Request, Civil Defense Director for Evacuation Map Funds | 1955 |
| 2 | 1 | Report, Dept of Civil Defense, Olympia | 1955 |
| 2 | 1 | Report, Coordinator of Civil Defense, Seattle | 1955 |
| 2 | 2 | Request, Director of Civil Defense for Radio Equipment from State | 1956 |
| 2 | 2 | Request, Director of Civil Defense to Secure Surplus State Pro for Civil Defense | 1957 |
| 2 | 2 | Clinton Request to Consolidate City and County Civil Defense | 1957 |
| 2 | 2 | Request, Director of Civil Defense for Seattle to Adopt Traffic Regulations | 1955 |
| 2 | 2 | Pet, United Veterans Defense Council about Civil Defense Appropriations | 1955 |
| 2 | 2 | Comptroller Report on Civil Defense Division Inventory | 1957 |
| 2 | 2 | Request Admiral Gerber for Civil Defense Appropriations | 1953 |
| 2 | 2 | Agreement of State and City Civil Defense on City use of State Equipment | 1956 |
| 2 | 3 | Clinton Request for Civil Defense HQ at Cedar Falls | 1958 |
| 2 | 3 | Progress Report, Seattle / King County Civil Defense for January - May, 1958 | 1958 |
| 2 | 3 | Report, Civil Defense Exercises by State Dept of Civil Defense | 1958 |
| 2 | 4 | Civil Defense Operator Plan of Seattle Critical Target Area | 1959 |
| 2 | 4 | Civil Defense Operator, Plan, Rules and Regulations of Government | 1959 |
| 2 | 4 | Rules and Regulations, RCW | 1959 |
| 2 | 5 | Petition, Seattle / King County Civil Defense Endorse Advisory County Resources | 1963 |
| 2 | 5 | Progress Report, Seattle / King County Civil Defense -- Plan, Expansion, Emergency Operation Capability | 1963 |
| 2 | 6 | Seattle-King County Civil Defense Minutes | 1964 |
| 2 | 7 | Washington State Civil Defense Joint Planning Committee Minutes | 1964 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Civil defense--Washington (State)--Seattle
- World War, 1939-1945
Corporate Names
- Seattle (Wash.). City Clerk
- Seattle Area War Projects Board
- Seattle Civilian War Commission
Geographical Names
- Seattle (Wash.)
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