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Name and location of repository
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Item
Title
2566-1
Date(s)
- 1935 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
ca. 1935. The Tacoma Totem Pole at the foot of South 10th Street, near the south side of the original Tacoma Hotel, circa 1935. A painter is suspended from ropes halfway up the pole. Building by McKim, Mead and White, Architects, New York City. The Totem Pole was commissioned by W.F. Sheard and Chester Thorne and presented to the city in 1903. It was carved by two Alaskan carvers in the Haida tribal style. (filed with Argentum)
Tacoma Totem Pole (Tacoma); Totem poles--Tacoma; Tacoma Hotel (Tacoma);