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Preparing the Groundwork for a City: The Regrading of Seattle, Washington, 1928

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Title	Preparing the Groundwork for a City: The Regrading of Seattle, Washington, 1928
Identifier	spl_saw_357977
Description	Description of major regrading projects to level the hills of Seattle. Includes topographic charts and photographs.
Subjects (LCSH)	Denny Hill (Seattle, Wash.) Denny Regrade (Seattle, Wash.) Seattle (Wash.)--Public Works Grading (Earthwork)--Washington (State)--Seattle
Neighborhood	South Lake Union Cascade Belltown Downtown
Date	1928
Decade	1920/1929
Notes	American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1669. Reprinted from Transactions, Vol. 92, p. 717 (1928)
Digitization Specifications	Master images scanned at 600 pixels per inch as uncompressed TIFF files in 24-bit RGB color and 1-bit black and white on an Epson Expression 10000 XL flatbed scanner and a Sharp MX-M620N photocopier. Images were processed (page splitting, skew correction, adding/removing margins, and cropping) using Scan Tailor, and then downsampled to 300 dpi using bicubic sharper sampling in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Master file size: 118,764,674 bytes (14 files)
File Format	image/jp2
Collection	Seattle Sawdust
Contributing Institution	The Seattle Public Library
Rights and Reproduction	For information about rights and reproduction, visit http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/rights
Copyright Status	Public Domain: Published before 1964 without copyright renewal.
Local Type	Publications
Source	http://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/show/357977030

Title	Front Cover
Identifier	spl_saw_357977
Subjects (LCSH)	Denny Hill (Seattle, Wash.) Denny Regrade (Seattle, Wash.) Seattle (Wash.)--Public Works Grading (Earthwork)--Washington (State)--Seattle
Rights and Reproduction	For information about rights and reproduction, visit http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/rights
Local Type	Publications
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Preparing the Groundwork for a City: The Regrading of Seattle, Washington, 1928

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