Power for the People: A History of Seattle City Light

by David W. Wilma, Walt Crowley, HistoryLink Staff

Since before Seattle voters decided in 1902 to build their own lighting plant, City Light has been a source of fierce civic pride for its independence from "foreign" corporations, its impressive public works projects, and its consistently low electricity rates. It has also been a headache for competitors, managers, and politicians. In the first years of the electric age, when Seattle was still a hard-scrable frontier town, power was supplied by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295985763
• ISBN13: 9780295985763
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.3" x 11.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher