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C162625-1
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(1919-1980)
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Copy of customer negative from customer's "old brochure on cremation." Undated photograph entitled "Reception Room, Oakwood Crematorium, Tacoma." This is part of the Oakwood Cemetery & Funeral Home, 5210 South Alder, which had been in business since 1880. All services were offered at this one location, just one block from the South Tacoma business district. Various chairs are scattered around the room where mourners could gather to sit quietly, talk or listen to the large reed organ with (fake) pipes. Photograph ordered by Oakwood Co. (Additional information provided by a reader)
Morgues & mortuaries--Tacoma; Crematoriums--Tacoma; Organs; Chairs; Reception rooms--Tacoma;