Eugene Semple scrapbooks, 1880-1955.

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Eugene Semple scrapbooks, 1880-1955.

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The scrapbooks contain clippings of articles about waterway engineering projects in Washington and Oregon, including articles related to the design and approval of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, with particular focus on the infrastructure needed to finalize the project. Other volumes chronicle the competition between the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroad Companies to build a train depot through the city of Seattle. Additional volumes are mainly related to the construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal and the South Waterway Canal and Semple's company, The Seattle & Lake Washington Waterway Company. The final scrapbook volume also contains a note from Semple's daughter, Mary Ethel Semple Swanstrom, dated 1955, about the failings of her father's projects. In particular, she alludes to the influential and powerful interests that contested the south canal in favor of the ship canal through Ballard and Lake Union, who lead to the downfall of his dream. Swanstrom may have contributed to the descriptions, dates and notes throughout the entire scrapbook collection.

10 v. ; sizes vary.

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University of Washington. Libraries

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