The “Favorite Archival Object” series is a monthly installment featuring archivists from Seattle Municipal Archives highlighted some of their favorite objects from our collections.

Processing Archivist Julie Kerssen describes a Central File from the Seattle Fire Department on a serial arsonist from 1935.

Citations:
– Fire Investigation – Arson – Robert Bruce Driscoll (1935), Item 2801_03_096_003, Record Series 2801-03: Fire Department Central Files
– Fighting the Fire Bomb (1941), Item 891, Record Series 2801-11: Seattle Fire Department Moving Images
– “Firebug Given Prison Sentence.” (1935, May 28). Seattle Daily Times, p. 9.

Music is from YouTube’s Audio Library (Creative Commons)