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Title
D1734-1
Date(s)
- 1937-12-17 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Policemen's Ball at Century Ballroom on December 17, 1937. Police color guard from the TPD leads into the ballroom a group including Mayor and Mrs.George Smitley, Safety (Police) Commissioner Frank Callender and Public Works Commissioner Abner Bergersen. Ranking police officials and their wives completed the group. This benefit ball was claimed to be the most successful ball given by Tacoma policemen. Hundreds attended the gala which swelled the coffers of the Police Relief and Benefit Association. ALBUM 11. (TNT 12-18-37, p. 2)
Balls (Parties)--Fife; Flag bearers--Fife; Police--Tacoma--1930-1940; Mayors--Tacoma--1930-1940; Smitley, George A., 1872-1956; Smitley, Isabel; Callender, Frank T.; Bergersen, Abner R.;