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 …

Seattle Municipal Archives’ Audiovisual Archivist Libby Hopfauf provides a brief overview of the Seattle Fire Department’s School and Fire-Safe Education (S.A.F.E.) animated film “Big Red,” produced in 1984. SMA Citations: – Big Red (1984), Item 969, Record Series 2801-11: Seattle Fire Department Moving Images – Guide to the Seattle Fire Department Public Education and Fire …