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Name and location of repository
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Item
Title
D9641-10A
Date(s)
- 1940-04-16 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
Scenes at Commercial Dock. Interior of warehouse filled with crates and material. Matthewson Shipping Company. The cargo, originally consigned to Vladivostok, USSR, had been unloaded from the American freighter Wildwood. The ship had turned round in mid Pacific, fearing a British blockade. This event marked the extension of the war into the Pacific trade routes. (T. Times 4/8/1940, pg. 1)
Shipping--Tacoma--1940-1950; Warehouses--Tacoma--1940-1950;