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| Title | Photo of construction of Cedar River pipeline 1900 |
| Photographer | Anders Beer Wilse |
| Date | 1900 |
| Notes | Cedar River pipeline No. 1 under construction, hauling pipe uphill east of Renton. Seattle's water system was the first municipally owned utility. Development of the watershed had a profound impact on King County, damming rivers, creating lakes, and "taking" more than 90, 000 acres of land for the watershed. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, contact The Seattle Municipal Archives, 600 4th Av. Room 104, Seattle, 98104 206-684-8353 |
| Credit Line | Seattle Municipal Archives; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
