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Collections- 9.1
Includes scrapbooks created by various individuals, families, organizations, and businesses. Some creators are unidentified. Scrapbooks may include photographs, newspaper clippings, writing, and ephemera.
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- c.1953-1957
Part of Scrapbook Collection
Family photographs and clippings compiled by James Bell, who was employed by Weyerhaeuser. Includes photos taken in Eugene, OR, North Hollywood and Santa Monica, CA, Vashon Island, WA, and Victoria BC.
Brittell, Floyd 1901-1984 No. 2
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- January 6, 1944-April 28, 1945
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Newspaper and magazine clippings relating to the Tacoma Shipyards where Floyd Brittell worked during WWII. No.2. Includes hull passes and a handwritten list of launchings.
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- c.1930-1960
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Scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, and letters relating to the career of this former state representive and senator who served from 1934-1960.
Haskell, Mrs. Royal (nee Wynifred Thomas) 1883-1965
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- c.1910-1920
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Scrapbook containing photographs of European travel, Washington, Missouri, Detroit and Chicago scenes. Most are captioned, some depicting Ventura Gachalian, a Filipino veterinarian. Includes newspaper clippings regarding the activities of Wynifred Thomas in Tacoma and Chicago.
Larin and Carhart family scrapbook
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- c.1922-1934
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Scrapbook featuring clippings and photographs of the extended Larin family. Based in Enumclaw, Mr. E. Larin was the editor and a partner in the Enumclaw Herald newspaper. Edith B. Carhart, an in-law, was the City Librarian of Bellingham
McClain, Leonard Rea 1879-1963 and McClain, Alma Gertrude Barrett 1885-1960
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- 1911-1919
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Family photographs with captions, depicting homes and interiors at Sixth Ave. & Warner, 814 South Cedar St., 1411 South Adams St., and 812 South Junett St. Point Defiance, Wright Park, family members and pets are depicted.
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- c.1915-1920
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Album with uncaptioned photographs taken by unknown photographer. Subjects include infants, children with toys and bicycles, uniformed soldiers, and family groups, both in town and in farm and outdoor settings.
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- c.1899-1940
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Album with mostly uncaptioned photographs of family scenes in house interior, wooded outdoors, farm, and school. Photographs and postcards from trips to Germany and England.
Liberty Loan Tacoma news clippings
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- 1917/09-1918/10
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Newspaper clippings from the Tacoma News Tribune and the Tacoma Ledger, on the Liberty Loan fund-raising campaign, most not attributed or dated. Includes color flyer pasted on inside from cover.
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- May 10, 1980 to August 19, 1980
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Scrapbook with clippings relating to the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
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- c. 1928-1944
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Photographs and ephemera from Mountain View Sanatorium. Nursing, home economics, and engineering staff are depicted, as well as patients and medical procedures. Includes photographs of dramatic and athletic performances, outings and parties, literary contributions. Note states donated by Kazahiko A. & Sandra J. Griffin.
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- c. 1920s-1940s
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Photograph album with family photos, some depicting Shirley Lloyd as a child and young woman. Most are uncaptioned, showing variously people in yards, children with toys and bicycles, pets, schoolchildren at I.G. Imbler School (1931-32). Includes two pages of semi-trucks and trailers with Fibreboard Products, Inc.
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- c.1900-1910
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Captioned photographs of Tacoma, apparently commercially produced by A. French, some copyright 1902.
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Brittell, Floyd 1901-1984 No. 1
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- 1942-1943
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Newspaper and magazine clippings relating to the Tacoma Shipyards where Floyd Brittell worked during WWII. No.1
Brittell, Floyd 1901-1984 No. 3
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- May 2, 1945-January 31, 1946
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Newspaper and magazine clippings relating to the Tacoma Shipyards where Floyd Brittell worked during WWII. No.3. Includes a handwritten list of launchings.
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- 1918-1969
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Scrapbook compiled and indexed by George Lawler, Jr., including clippings, photographs, and brochures relating to his father's life and career in the flower bulb business.
Liggett (Sumner), Porter 1902-1979
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- c. 1900-1915
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Photograph album of the Liggett family of Tacoma, featuring their daughter Porter and friends at the family home at 824 North M St., and extended family in Missouri.
Liggett (Sumner), Porter 1902-1979
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- c. 1904-1915, 1933
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Photographs and negatives relating to the Liggett family, and also the front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of July 22, 1933.
Straight, Margaret R 1915-1990
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- c.1930-1950
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Photograph album of snapshots believed to be compiled by Margaret Straight of Spokane, including clippings and memorabilia. Other names mentioned are Dr. H Goldstein. Kay and Lou Reinhard, and Doris and Jerry Garofalo.
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- c.1920s
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Scrapbook containing clippings relating to the William Wingard family of Tacoma. Members include Lester, Lemuel, and Lorraine.
Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Puyallup Chapter
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- c.1938-1960
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Scrapbook with clippings, photographs, programs and brochures relating to the Puyallup Daughters of the Pioneers. Includes typewritten pages of minutes of the Twenty-First Annual Convention, May 24, 25, 26, 1960.
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- c.1910-1920
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Album with uncaptioned photographs taken by unknown photographer, many removed and missing. One photo depicts a grocery wagon with the name of the Tacoma business McLean and McMillan Grocers on the side.
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- c.1900-1910
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Photograph album with uncaptioned photographs, some removed. Labelled "found at Fern Hill Branch Library" on inside back cover. One photo depicts a horse-drawn grocery delivery wagon with "C.O.Brown Grocer, Fern Hill" sign on the side.
Mountain and travel photographs
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- 1921, 1932-1939
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Scrapbook consisting of captioned photographs of mountain scenery on Mount Rainier, Cascades, and Crater Lake. Some credited to Tom Dodge, Clarence Garner, Alfred Holmead, and Gordon Ketring.
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- c.1900-1910
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Album with uncaptioned photographs of nurses, on and off duty. Hospital exterior and interiors are shown, an apparent operation is depicted.
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- c.1907-1935
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Repurposed ledger with newspaper clippings and enclosures. Includes two issues of "Wacht am Sunde", April 11, 1907 and September 20, 1928, and a stock certificate in the Library Association of Arletta, issued to C.O. Lorenz.