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D53404-3
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- 1950-10-11 (Creation)
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This October 11, 1950, photograph of a man in a hospital bed, nurse and patient with neck/jaw brace playing cards was apparently taken as part of a series by the Richards Studio. Names of the individuals were not provided. At the same time, Norman G. ("Jake") Jacobson, chief forester for the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., was in Tacoma General recovering from an illness. According to the News Tribune article of October 13th, Mr. Jacobson was given the first two Douglas fir seedlings of the year to be planted at the St. Paul & Tacoma Tree Farm. Photograph ordered by James Stevens, West Coast Lumberman's Association with studio notes indicating Mr. Jacobson at Tacoma General Hospital. (Neither man in this picture was Mr. Jacobson) (TNT 10-13-50, A-9-article)
Card games--Tacoma; Sick persons; Tacoma General Hospital (Tacoma); Hospitals--Tacoma--1950-1960; Nurses--Tacoma--1950-1960;