Seattle Post-Intelligencer: 1962 World's Fair [pdf] http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/specials/worldsfair/ HistoryLink Essay: Century 21 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2290 See You in Seattle [iTunes, Quick Time] http://www.seattlehistory.org/av_files/seeyouinseattle.mp3 Clips: World's Fair 1962 http://gridskipper.com/359625/worlds-fair-1962 Century 21...

From April 21 to October 21, 1962, Seattle played host to millions of people who sought out a glimpse into the future through the Century 21 Exposition. This world's fair presented an optimistic vision of "a future improved through science and technology" and this online collection from the Seattle Public Library presents over 1,200 photographs of the fair, along with books, brochures, reports,...

In 2000, the city of Seattle began an ambitious project to survey and inventory historic resources across the entire municipality. The last such project took place in 1979 and taken together, these efforts offer excellent documentation of the built environment. The database here includes over 5,000 properties and visitors can search through the entire collection by address, parcel number, property...

This fine photographic archive serves as both a great repository of visual historical documentation of the King County area (which includes Seattle) in the state of Washington, as a good example of a collaborative partnership between various organizations. The partnership includes bringing together the visual collections of ten small historical organizations in tandem with the University of...

The Seattle Municipal Archives has been a leader in putting important historical municipal documents online for well over a decade, and this digital document libraries collection is an important part of their work. These document libraries were conceived as a resource for teachers and students of Washington State history, and they contain primary source documents from key events in the Evergreen...

From its origins as a small town on Elliott Bay, Seattle's transformation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries has mirrored that of other conurbations with a waterside orientation. The staff members at the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections have created this fine online database which documents this transformation, and it is available to all interested parties. The database...