George F. Cotterill papers, 1839-1958 (bulk 1890-1956).

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George F. Cotterill papers, 1839-1958 (bulk 1890-1956).

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Correspondence, diaries, legislative and court papers, speeches, engineering notes, scrapbook, photos, and clippings documenting Cotterill's involvement in the temperance movement, Seattle municipal government, Washington state politics, and his career as a surveyor and engineer. Personal and family life is represented through letters, diaries of relatives, memoirs, and photographs. Turn of the century Seattle politics is revealed through Cotterill's correspondence, writings, various printed materials, and scrapbooks of campaign clippings. Also evident is Seattle's rapid growth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Major correspondents include the Anti-Saloon League of America, Wesley Livsey Jones, Robert Montgomery, Homer Truett Bone, Reginald Heber Thompson, and Plymouth Congregational Church of Seattle.

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