Preliminary Guide to the Richard J. Brooks Papers
1956-2000

Biographical Note

Richard J. Brooks was born in 1923 and died in 2001. He was a Seattle businessman who founded Chemithon Corporation, an industrial equipment manufacturing company and, in 1982, Brooks Rand, Ltd, a company which specializes in chemical process development and trace metal analysis. Brooks was active in urban environmental issues as well as wilderness issues. He was a member of the Solid Waste Advisory Committee for the Seattle City Council, a consultant to the City of Seattle for the Gas Works Park cleanup efforts, and a member of the neighborhood organization, the Union Bay Preservation Coalition (ca.1992-1999). From approximately 1973 to 1990, Brooks was on the Board of Directors of the North Cascades Conservation Council

Scope and Content

Correspondence, minutes, reports, subject files, environmental impact statements, testimony, writings, maps, photographs, clippings, newsletters, and ephemera.

Accession includes records of the North Cascades Conservation Council, 1967-1995, and Union Bay Preservation Coalition, 1991-2000. The records document Brooks' opposition to the raising of Ross Dam on the Skagit River and to expansion plans for Interstate 90. The records also document his interest in the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle's West Point sewage treatment plant, Gas Works Park, and the Stehekin area in Washington.

Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries

Restrictions on Access

Open to all users but access to portions of the papers restricted.

Acquisition Info

Donated 11/29/1978.

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