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Item
Title
D30549-2
Date(s)
- 1947-11-17 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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This photograph of the Earl Painting Company, located at 1122 Court D, was taken in November of 1947. At that time, they were working on a major paint job for the Hooker Electrochemical Company on the Tacoma tideflats. Earl Gallmeyer first went into the painting business in Tacoma in 1935. He started the Earl Painting Co. in 1945. Shown in front of the company's headquarters are: (l to r) W. M. Warme, head foreman; Ralph Slade, painter; Earl Gallmeyer, owner; Conrad Lea, painter and William Novak, assistant foreman. (T. Times, 12/1/47, p. 10).
Painting--Tacoma; Paint industry--Tacoma; Laborers--Tacoma; Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Earl Painting Co. (Tacoma);