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Reginald Heber Thomson and members of Seattle City Council, 1900
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| Title | Reginald Heber Thomson and members of Seattle City Council, 1900 |
| Photographer | Wilse, Anders B. |
| Date | 1900 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Official Inspection Tour of the Seattle City Council, May 1, 1900. 75x Wilse
Filed in Portraits--Thomson, Reginald |
| Contextual Notes | Reginald Heber Thomson (1856-1949) was born and raised in a Scottish colony in Hanover, Indiana, and graduated from Hanover College with a doctorate of philosophy in 1877. Thomson probably did more than any other individual to change the face of Seattle. During his exemplary career as city engineer and beyond, he leveled hills, straightened and dredged waterways, reclaimed tideflats, built sewers, sidewalks, tunnels, and bridges, and paved roads. He was instrumental in creating the Cedar River watershed, City Light, the Port of Seattle, and the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. In fact, virtually all of Seattle's infrastructure can be attributed to R. H. Thomson. From 1905 to 1915 Thomson was president of the University of Washington's board of managers.
On verso of image: R.H. Thomson (center) on a trip to study location for a power house, 1902. City Councilmen William H. Murphy (left) and Ellis Morrison accompanied him.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | City council members--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Thomson, Reginald Heber, 1856-1949
Civil engineers--Washington (State)
Portraits, Group--Washington (State)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)
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| Digital Collection | Portraits Collection
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| Order Number | POR0173
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| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info
Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | Wilse 75x |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Portraits Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 6 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003 |
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