Wikipedia:WikiProject Seattle

Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles relating to the Seattle metropolitan area, especially the city of Seattle itself.

Parentage
WikiProject Seattle's parent project include WikiProject Cities and WikiProject Washington (WikiProject United States).

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Structure
All related pages should be classified into Category:Seattle, Washington, Category:Seattle metropolitan area, or a subcategory of one of these categories.

Subpages

 * List of

Cities in the Seattle metropolitan area

 * ''See Category:Cities in the Seattle metropolitan area.

Many of these need serious work, as they aren't far from the auto-generated entries. List of cities in Washington (by population) might help with this; it highlights Seattle-area cities in green.

Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington is a featured article and appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as "Today's featured article" on October 17, 2005.

Seattle neighborhoods

 * See Category:Neighborhoods in Seattle and List of Seattle neighborhoods.

So far, we have named neighborhoods XXXXX, Seattle. As of August 2008, virtually all articles have at least been started, though many are still rather stubby.

Selected Tasks

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Complete list

 * Work on Seattle (especially by making it more text and fewer lists).
 * Partially merge Puget Sound and Seattle metropolitan area.
 * You can add to talk pages of Seattle-related articles; it will display as follows, and also place those talk pages into a category related to this project.

Suburbs

 * Bremerton
 * Everett
 * Lakewood
 * Auburn
 * Edmonds
 * Lynnwood
 * Puyallup

Neighborhoods
See Neighborhoods of Seattle and Category:Neighborhoods in Seattle for a more or less complete list.



A lot of these could be improved by using a more normal citation style.


 * Admiral District
 * Alki
 * Ballard
 * Beacon Hill
 * Belltown
 * Blue Ridge
 * Broadmoor
 * Broadview
 * Capitol Hill
 * Cascade a.k.a. South Lake Union
 * Central District a.k.a. Central Area
 * Columbia City
 * Crown Hill
 * Denny-Blaine
 * Downtown
 * Eastlake
 * First Hill
 * Fremont
 * Georgetown
 * Green Lake
 * Greenwood
 * Hawthorne Hills
 * Holly Park
 * Industrial District
 * Interbay
 * International District
 * Lake City
 * Laurelhurst
 * Leschi
 * Licton Springs
 * Luna Park
 * Madison Park
 * Madison Valley
 * Madrona
 * Magnolia
 * Maple Leaf
 * Montlake
 * Mount Baker
 * Northgate
 * Pioneer Square
 * Queen Anne
 * Rainier Beach
 * Rainier Valley
 * Ravenna
 * Roosevelt
 * Sand Point
 * SoDo a.k.a. South of Downtown
 * South Park
 * Squire Park
 * University District
 * Uptown a.k.a. Lower Queen Anne
 * View Ridge
 * Wallingford
 * Washington Park
 * West Seattle
 * Westlake
 * White Center
 * Windermere
 * Yesler

Buildings and structures

 * See List of Seattle landmarks for a complete list of official landmarks. Many need articles.
 * Ditto for National Register of Historic Places listings in Seattle, Washington
 * One of the most surprising omissions is Seattle Hebrew Academy
 * Also, the Mann Building, now home of the Wild Ginger and Triple Door, once home of the Embassy Theater
 * King County Landmarks (and other county equivalents) need lists and articles
 * Washington State Convention and Trade Center
 * Seattle Cinerama
 * Historic Chinatown Gate (Seattle) (unveiled 9 Feb 2008; images at Commons:Category:Historic Chinatown Gate (Seattle); is one of many articles we could cite, but we should also find something about controversy over the name (both "historic" and "Chinatown" were controversial.)

Parks

 * See this page for a complete list. The local, far from complete list is at List of Seattle parks.


 * Discovery Park
 * Frink Park
 * Washington Park Arboretum
 * Ravenna Park
 * Freeway Park
 * Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park
 * Marra Farm

People

 * About half of the winners of the Stranger Genius Awards lack articles, and several of the articles we do have are short. Also, most lack photos. Winners are mostly individuals, although about 20% are organizations. Among the 50+ award winners over the course of a decade are:
 * Sherman Alexie, semi-decent article as of 2012, but has potential for a very major article
 * Lori Goldston, cellist, Stranger Genius Award winner, played with Nirvana; looks like as of 2018 someone has done a decent job on this one
 * Jeffry Mitchell, artist. Stranger Genius Award winner, major 2012 show at the Henry.
 * Jonathan Raban
 * Susan Robb, artist, one of the first Stranger Genius Award winners.
 * Very few of the local artists in the recent Frye Art Museum exhibit Mw Moment Magnitude have articles; some are among the people listed below, some aren't. There is a good bit of overlap with the Stranger Genius Awards.
 * Another overlapping list: winners of Seattle Art Museum's Betty Bowen Award. Bowen herself has slightly more than a stub.
 * Ralph Anderson (Seattle architect), a key figure in the revival of Pioneer Square. We now have a good starter article; could definitely use some images of private houses he designed.
 * Kichio Allen Arai, "Seattle's first Asian American architect to design buildings under his own name.", see also
 * William Rankin Ballard
 * Powell Barnett: musician, athlete, activist, has a Seattle park named after him.
 * Ross Palmer Beecher, artist; work has hung in places ranging from the Seattle Art Museum to the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, with permanent installations at (among others) Safeco Field and Seattle Tacoma International Airport. Documentary film of Beecher; basically an interview, possibly good for quotations, should certainly be linked once we have an article.
 * Jherek Bischoff, musician, good piece on him here by Brendan Kiley that mentions enough collaborations with prominent musicians to make the notability thing pretty clear.
 * Gregory Blackstock (artist)
 * Carson Boren (one of Seattle's founders), way under-cited, and probably a bit stubby (mostly just family stuff)
 * Stan Boreson, b. 1925, "King of Scandinavian Humor"
 * Kay Bullitt (philanthropist), philanthropist
 * Calvin Brainerd Cady, major influence on Nellie Cornish; she was eventually able to hire him as associate director of the Cornish School
 * Kenneth Callahan, mid-20th century artist, barely a stub
 * Buddy Catlett, jazz musician
 * Frank B. Cooper, two decades as superintendent of schools
 * Claire Cowie, artist
 * John Curley: current TV and radio personality and host of KING 5's "Evening Magazine"
 * Thelma Dewitty, first African American teacher in Seattle Public Schools
 * Aaron Dixon, activist. Good starter article, but clearly no one has worked through his memoir as a source.
 * Paul Dorpat, Seattle historian
 * Jesse Epstein, pioneer of Seattle public housing and, with Yesler Terrace, of racial integration.
 * Bob Ferguson (politician) reads like a campaign ad as of 2012-11-26, needs work.
 * Buddy Foley: musician, "ladybug guy," all-around character. Most known just as a highly visible figure on the Seattle scene for the last half-century or so. Should be plenty of third-party documentation.
 * Richard Fuller (Seattle Art Museum), founder of SAM
 * Daniel Hunt Gilman, (as in "Burke-Gilman Trail")
 * Nicola Griffith, British-born writer, lives in Seattle
 * Austin E. Griffiths, "father of Seattle's playgrounds" says Richard C. Berner
 * Ivar Haglund
 * Barry Henthorn, CEO of ReelTime.com.
 * Adrian Hanauer, CEO of Northwest Framing Company, owner of Seattle Sounders (USL)
 * Richard Hugo, not much more than a stub.
 * Thomas J. Humes, mayor for 6 years during the "open city" Yukon Gold Rush era
 * Indigo Blue, probably the city's most prominent present-day burlesque performer
 * Bertha Knight Landes, first woman to be mayor of a major American city, we have a stub
 * Erika Langley, photographer, memoirist ("The Lusty Lady").
 * Ed Leimbacher - writer and producer of classic Rainier Beer TV ads of 1970s to 1990s. See HIS BLOG for general background getting started.
 * Gary Little, judge, suicide over accusations of child abuse
 * Kelly Lyles (artist): might be a marginal call for notability, but certainly quite a Seattle character, and I suspect that with a bit of work notability could be established. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 02:07, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Roy McMakin, artist
 * J. A. Moore: Moore Theatre, main developer of Capitol Hill and University Heights. Also, promoter in 1906 of a less ambitious scheme for a lock at Ballard that stimulated the one that was ultimately built.
 * Mark A. Matthews, Presbyterian minister, prominent Prohibitionist
 * Thomas T. Minor, mayor, disappeared on a canoe trip
 * Asa Mercer
 * Charles Mudede: article is a bit stubby as of November 2012, and citation apparatus is a mess.
 * Abe Osheroff, Spanish Civil War vet and activist extraordinaire (died April 6, 2008). We have a bit more than a stub. http://abeosheroff.org/ has numerous links to articles that would be a basis to expand this.
 * Norm Rice
 * James T. Ronald, mayor, prominent judge (including the trial of the Wobblies after the Everett Massacre)
 * James Delmage Ross (as of 2015-08-05, just a redirect to Skagit River Hydroelectric Project; usually just called James D. Ross, there should be a redirect between these once there is an article) of Ross Dam and Ross Lake fame: important in the history of City Light.
 * Ann Rule
 * Eli Sanders, Pulitzer-winning writer for The Stranger
 * Cecelia Schultz, most prominent Seattle impresario of the 1930s and 1940s
 * E.O. Schwagerl, Seattle's first Park Supervisor
 * Paul Schell, mayor - pretty decent B-class article as of December 2018
 * Bill "The Beerman" Scott - legendary Seattle sports beer vendor; see Rick "The Peanut Man" Kaminski for possible in-links.
 * Tiberio Simone, chef. See http://www.lafigaproject.com, http://imageevent.com/mbates/tiberiosvillage
 * Sam Smith (politician), first African-American to serve on the city council.
 * Bill Speidel
 * Norm Stamper
 * Sidney Dix Strong, pacifist Congregationalist minister, author, father of Anna Louise Strong
 * Victor Steinbrueck
 * Margaret Tompkins, artist. Why is it not surprising that of the many artists whose works are cast in concrete at the Betty Bowen Viewpoint, the only one who doesn't have a Wikipedia article as of December 2012 is the one woman?
 * George Francis Vanderveer, "Counsel for the Damned"
 * Charles "Wappy" Wappenstein, famously corrupt police chief
 * Henry Yesler
 * Many red links at List of University of Washington Presidents; of these, at least Thomas Franklin Kane deserves an article.
 * Several red links in List of mayors of Seattle

Bands
''Not everything listed here is necessarily notable. Do be prepared to justify notability if you take these on.''
 * Absolute Monarchs. Pretty prominent current band.
 * The Allies (band). New wave era. "Emma Peel"
 * Bad Love Sessions. Blues/Rock/Grunge style band.
 * Beat Connection (band), current band, came in 5th on recent City Arts poll
 * The Bad Things. Seattle's premier “Junkyard Cabaret” band.
 * Best Band from Earth. Space Pop music group. "Silver Scream", "Home"
 * The Blowdog and Sneezy Show. Experimental/Psychedelic.
 * Boom City. An Indie Rock/Pop band.
 * Campfire OK, current band, came in 2nd on recent City Arts poll
 * Crome Syrcus, most notable for their 1967 collaboration with the Joffrey Ballet: Astarte; the latter article could also use a lot of work.
 * Curtains for You. Decent article, but needs cleanup and better citations.
 * Fresh Espresso (hip hop)
 * A Gun That Shoots Knives. Pop and Indie Rock music group. "Make Believe", "Crazy Beach"
 * The Georgetown Orbits. A Reggae, Rocksteady, Ska music group.
 * The Heats (a.k.a. The Heaters). New wave era. "I Don't Like Your Face".
 * Ice Age Cobra. A Garage and Indie Rock style band.
 * Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground. Psychedelic rock, Digital Soul.
 * Massive Monkees, B-boy group.
 * My Goodness, current (?) band, came in 4th on recent City Arts poll
 * Mystery Ship. A modern Classic rock and Psychedelic blues rock music group. "Medusa"
 * Ravenna Woods, almost certainly among the most prominent local young bands.
 * The Seattle SuperSonics. A 2-piece Indie Rock band.
 * Shabazz Palaces (hip hop) have barely a stub.
 * The Spinning Whips. An Indie Rock music group.
 * Strong Killings. An Punk Rock and Experimental music group.
 * Thee Emergency Rock and Soul garage rock band. "Can You Dig It?"
 * Thee Satisfaction (hip hop)
 * Visible Targets. New wave era, produced at one point by Mick Ronson
 * Former band Visqueen have a short, decent article but lead Rachel Flotard, now a solo act, lacks one.
 * Waxy Moon, probably the city's most prominent present-day male burlesque performer
 * The Young Evils, one of the most prominent current young bands in town

Bridges and tunnels

 * Ballard Bridge
 * Fremont Bridge
 * Ship Canal Bridge
 * University Bridge
 * West Seattle Bridge
 * Magnolia Bridge
 * Montlake Bridge
 * Salmon Bay Bridge
 * Mount Baker Tunnel
 * Great Northern Tunnel

Streets
''Many other major U.S. cities have articles about their major streets. There are almost none of these for Seattle as of November 2012. See Category:Streets in Seattle, Washington''.


 * Alaskan Way and Alaskan Way Viaduct are near-stubs.
 * Cheasty Boulevard South is a stub.
 * Lake Washington Boulevard is a near-stub.
 * Madison Street (Seattle) is a stub.
 * Just outside Seattle, Des Moines Memorial Drive is a near-stub
 * Broadway (Seattle)
 * Denny Way
 * California Avenue (Seattle)
 * Eastlake Avenue (Seattle) and Roosevelt Way (Seattle)
 * Martin Luther King Jr. Way (Seattle)
 * Rainier Avenue

Transit

 * Metro Transit
 * Seattle Transit System (predecessor to Metro)
 * Link Light Rail
 * Pierce Transit
 * Everett Transit
 * Seattle Monorail Project
 * Seattle–Everett Traction Company, later the Pacific Northwest Traction Company, popularly known as the Seattle–Everett Interurban
 * Seattle Streetcar Network (Seattle Municipal Street Railway)

Organizations

 * Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fair (originally Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Fair). OK, it's not quite in Seattle, but it was pretty much the prototype of the whole arts-oriented street fair thing in the region.
 * Chong Wa Benevolent Association: right now article has possibly inaccurate one-liner about Seattle. - 02:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Cirque Theater/Cirque Dinner Theater: see David Wilma, Gene Keene ends 31 years of theater production in Seattle on December 30, 1980, HistoryLink, August 21, 1999
 * Citizens' Alliance (Seattle) - anti-union alliance founded 1901, refounded 1904 by Jacob Furth
 * Grace Gospel Chapel, 2052 NW 64th St, claims to be “The oldest independent, evangelical LGBT Church in the U.S.” Photo available at Image:Seattle - Grace Gospel Chapel 01.jpg
 * Downtown Seattle Association (previously Central Association)
 * Frederick & Nelson
 * Fremont Arts Council
 * Japanese Association of North America; Seattle-based; I believe strictly pre-WWII - Jmabel | Talk 01:31, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Japanese Hotel Owners Association (Seattle), defunct I believe - Jmabel | Talk 01:38, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * King County Council
 * King County Colored Republican Club: obviously from the name, historical
 * Ladies' Musical Club, founded 1891, oldest existing arts organization in Seattle
 * Left Bank Books, longstanding anarchist bookstore in Pike Place Market
 * The Municipal League (commonly called the "Muni League")
 * Municipal Ownership Party, a merger circa 1905 of the earlier Municipal Ownership League and Workingmen's Party.
 * Northwest Releasing booked shows, prominently affected arts scene 1952 onwards. Went national circa 1970. At one time, the nation's largest talent booking agency.
 * Philadelphia String Quartet (Seattle-based since 1967, despite the name)
 * Rat City Rollergirls
 * Reliance Hospital: Japanese immigrant clientele. 1913-1925. HistoryLink article
 * Safe Schools Coalition
 * Sea Mar - Community Health Centers, mainly Latino, originally in South Park. Sponsor of Seattle's Fiestas Patrias parade.
 * Seattle City Council
 * Seattle Commercial Club: for about 20 years in the early 20th century a rival to the Chamber of Commerce, with which it eventually merged. Was more focused on specifically local business interests (vs., for example, the railroads)
 * Seattle District Court
 * Seattle Economic League - early 20th century, tied to railway interests (Thomas Burke, Mohn H. McGraw)
 * Seattle Arts Commission
 * Seattle Fine Arts Society - Seattle's first significant visual arts organization, as far as I know. Absorbed the shorter-lived and less successful Washington State Art Association in 1917; once the article exists, that should be a redirect. Material on this in Richard C. Berner, Seattle 1900-1920 (1991; p. 94–97). - Jmabel | Talk 07:51, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Seattle Folklore Society
 * Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce
 * Seattle Japanese Chamber of Commerce, not sure whether this still exists - Jmabel | Talk 01:38, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum
 * Seattle Rainiers
 * Seafair Pirates
 * Stone & Webster: not Seattle-specific, but once owned trolleys here. A very historically important company; we have a stub. - 02:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Women Painters of Washington, see http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=7644

Periodicals

 * We have quite a few entries at Category:Newspapers published in Seattle; most could use expansion.
 * Additional Seattle newspapers:
 * The Argus (Seattle), progressive Republican newspaper edited by Henry Chadwick in the early 20th century. Have a stub, could use more.
 * Railway and Marine News (late 19th and early 20th century) was published in Seattle
 * Seattle Municipal News published for several decades by the Muni League; Warren G. Magnuson was once its editor
 * Seattle Sun (19th century) was extant on May 25, 1895.
 * Seattle Sun (daily newspaper) ran from February 3, 1913, to August 18, 1915, with a hiatus from December 30, 1914, to April 21, 1915.
 * Seattle Telegraph, short-lived, extant 1890, backed by James J. Hill, edited by Thomas Burke (judge) and Daniel Gilman (mentioned in Richard C. Berner, Seattle 1910-1920 (1991), p. 34
 * The Town Crier, early 20th century, voice of the right-wing elite
 * The Union Record, labor newspaper, early 20th century
 * Several late 19th century African American newspapers (all mentioned in Esther Hall Mumford Seattle's Black Victorians 1852-1901, p. 85–92):
 * Most notably The Seattle Republican (1894-1917), edited by Horace R. Cayton (usually referred to as H. R. Cayton). It is the only one of these 19th century African American newspapers for which entire issues survive.
 * Probably the rest of these (and a mention of the Republican) should be lumped into one article, along with any other early Seattle African American newspapers; Mumford is certainly the best source on these, because she tracked down places where most were quoted in other newspapers.
 * The Standard (at least 1891-1893, possibly into 1894)
 * The Amusement Herald (extant 1895)
 * The Northwest Illuminator (1897-1898 or later)
 * Several publications edited by Daniel Webster Griffin, all short-lived: The Western Sun (founded 1898) the Negro World (founded 1899), the Bee (founded 1900)
 * The Washington Exponent (founded 1900, soon moved to Tacoma)
 * There must have been Asian papers before the present era; does anyone know some names?
 * Magazines
 * Seattle Metropolitan is a stub
 * There is a present-day Seattle Magazine: http://www.seattlemag.com/
 * There was an earlier Seattle (magazine 1964–70) (I think those dates are right), published by KING-TV and the Bullitt family, edited by David Brewster
 * In the 1980s, the Bullitts had Pacific Search, later Pacific Northwest magazine
 * Also in the 1980s was Washington (magazine)
 * There is a present-day Seattle Woman magazine: http://www.seattlewomanmagazine.com/

Geography

 * Bailey Peninsula
 * Cherry Grove–Shannon Township, Carroll County, Illinois, where the Denny Party came from. See for a quite decent article, written by someone born 1992, so presumably still in high school, but published on the very solid HistoryLink site.

Events

 * Major annual events at Seattle Center
 * Bumbershoot
 * Northwest Folklife Festival
 * Festál
 * Bite of Seattle
 * Seattle Hempfest is not much of an article for such a prominent event. Also, its executive director Vivian McPeak, who has written a book about Hempfest, may well deserve an article in his own right.

Miscellaneous
We have a near stub on the 2012 Seattle cafe shooting spree. We do not have much biographical information on the victims (even though at least two were rather well-known musicians) nor on the Café Racer (Seattle) even though it is a pretty prominent music venue, and it would be easy to find third-party articles about the music scene centered there. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 02:04, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Photos wanted
See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Seattle for the main list of articles needing photos. Free images, of course. For some of these, we have fair use images, but those aren't really a good solution.


 * If anyone wants to do a photo expedition some weekend, or (once the days get long) evening, let me know. - Jmabel | Talk 02:43, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * People
 * Dead
 * William Rankin Ballard
 * John Considine (Seattle)
 * Gwendolyn Knight
 * Jacob Lawrence
 * Abe Osheroff
 * Living
 * Norm Stamper
 * Colleen J. McElroy
 * current public office holders
 * ballet dancers at PNB
 * Buildings
 * We're still a bit short on the craftsman houses that are probably the most typical Seattle architecture of the 1910s and 1920s.
 * Landmarks: a (very) few of the List of Landmarks in Seattle still lack images as of August 2015:
 * Loyal Heights School, 2501 NW 80th Street
 * MV Malibu
 * Martha Washington School, 6612 65th Avenue South (demolished?)
 * Other demolished buildings
 * Film Exchange Building
 * Does anyone have a picture of the previous downtown library (the Paul Thiry building that was there between the Carnegie Library and the present Rem Koolhaus building)?
 * How about the Jewish Chapel that used to stand at 12th & Spruce
 * Neighborhoods
 * See commons:Category:Neighborhoods of Seattle
 * Feel free to make requests here for anything you think is under-covered
 * Transportation in Seattle
 * We have some relevant pictures, but we could use some that are more to the purpose. Especially it would be good to have pictures showing multi-modal transportation: park-and-ride lots; cars, bikes, and motorcycles on a ferry; bikes on the front of a bus.
 * Surrounding area: We have a reasonable number of Seattle images (though of course there are many specific ones still to be added) but barely a handful of images of most nearby communities.

Section updated by Jmabel | Talk 00:18, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Resources

 * The government archives of Washington state, all the way back to the first election in Washington Territory, have been put online (news article). The website is http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/. Surely there's information here we can slide in to our 'pedia, at the very least, election and office holder records, perhaps even detailed census information. (Mentioned by Golbez 21:07, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC) on Village pump (miscellaneous) He doesn't say anything about whether some of this might not be public domain; a note on that would be useful.)
 * HistoryLink is an excellent self-described Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History. The materials are copyrighted, so have respect for that, but the information is uniformly excellent and there are usually numerous useful references on most articles.
 * Seattle has an uncommonly good archives department, part of the City Clerk's office. Among other things, Seattle has scanned the entire Kroll 1920 city atlas; search for Kroll 1920.
 * Baist's 1912 Seattle atlas is available at pauldorpat.com.
 * Baist's 1908 Seattle atlas is available at pauldorpat.com.
 * The first two of the three volumes of Clarence B. Bagley, History of Seattle From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company (Chicago:1916) are now online through Google Books. Good source, among other things, for photos of prominent early Seattleites (though not if they are Asian or Black).
 * A very early Seattle history, Frederic James Grant, History of Seattle, Washington with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, American Publishing and Engraving Co., 1891, is also online at Google Books although a few pages are poorly scanned. p. 362 et. seq. looks like a pretty good account of early Seattle newspapers.
 * And don't forget the thousands of photos at Commons:Category:Seattle, Washington, including hundreds in Commons:Category:Seattle, Washington before 1950 and its subcategories.
 * Department of Neighborhoods Historic Preservation Context Statements. A ton of first-rate material, little of which has been mined for Wikipedia, and which usually does not show up high in Google searches.
 * Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project describes the history of racial segregation and multi-racial movements for racial justice in the Seattle area during the 20th century.
 * Professor James N. Gregory's Pacific Northwest Labor History Projects provide comprehensive online histories of the 1919 General Strike in Seattle, the Communist Party in Washington State, the labor press in Washington, the history of waterfront workers in the Puget Sound, the history of farmworkers in Washington state, workers and unions at the University of Washington, and a history of the World Trade Organization protests in 1999.
 * Also, on just plain library resources: the Seattle Public Library has an excellent collection; the particularly good non-circulating collection in the Seattle Room on the 10th floor of the downtown library includes Polk's Directories for Seattle clear back to the 19th century, and the periodicals collection is also quite thorough. Both the Everett and Burien public libraries also have excellent Northwest collections.
 * Rob Ketcherside has published a list of historic street renamings in South Seattle. Many of these relate to annexations of extensions to the city.

Newspapers
A wide variety of local newspaper archives are available online with the use of a local library card. Most systems in Washington state are able to give reciprocal cards to members of other Washington state library systems.


 * The Seattle Times (1895 to present), via Seattle Public Library: Full images up to 1984, text only from then onwards. Online versions of articles are available up to 1990, but sparse until 2001 or so.
 * Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1901 to 2009 print, online 2009 to present), via Seattle Public Library: Full images up to 1984, text only from the onward.
 * Newspapers.com (available through The Wikipedia Library) includes The News Tribune (Tacoma), The Spokesman-Review (Spokane), The Olympian (Olympia), and Kitsap Sun (Bremerton). It also includes other Seattle publications: The Northwest Times (Japanese American, 1947–1955), Seattle Gay News (1977–2019), Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1876–1903), Seattle Star (1899–1947), Seattle Union Record (1918–1928), Washington Staatszeitung (German American, 1900–1936)
 * US West NewsStream (1983 to present), via Pierce County Library: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The News Tribune, Spokesman-Review, Puget Sound Business Journal, etc.
 * Newspaperarchive.com, via Timberland Regional Library (Thurston County and Olympic Peninsula): Plenty of local newspapers up to the 1970s