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Item
Title
D14053-4
Date(s)
- 1943-01-20 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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War Housing; Salishan project. The skeleton frames of new construction at Salishan can be seen in the background. Tacoma, unable to house all of the area's defense workers, had undertaken their largest housing project to date, a 2,000+ housing development on the east side. By January of 1943, some of the houses were almost completed, but no one was able to move in because there were no sewers. The sewers had not yet been built. [Also dated 02-09-1943]
World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--Tacoma; Housing developments--Tacoma--1940-1950; Salishan Housing Project (Tacoma);