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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D9641-10
Date(s)
- 1940-04-16 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
Unloading scenes at Commercial Dock. Three workmen using forklift to load metal alloys onto wooden pallets. Matthewson Shipping Company. The shipment, originally bound for Russia, had been unloaded from the American Steamship Co. freighter "Wildwood." The vessel had turned around in the mid Pacific and returned to Tacoma, fearing an Allied blockade. The cargo consisted of copper, brass and machinery. (T. Times 4/8/1940, pg. 1)
Shipping--Tacoma--1940-1950; Warehouses--Tacoma--1940-1950;