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Cobbler at sole stitching machine in a work coat.
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Cobbler at sole stitching machine in a work coat.
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Fort Lewis buffet featuring fruit salad, dips, cake and a large roast.
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Ft. Lewis Training Center group portrait. Soldiers are holding up a painted wooden sign saying, "Bravo Bums."
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Group of Japanese American soldiers standing in an auditorium. There is a no smoking sign and a smoking room pictured in the background.
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Soldiers wearing tear gas masks and long brimmed hats walking through a fog.
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"The Four Horseman, Capt. C.W. Van Rooy"
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"Medical Detachment, 148th Field Artillery - Major Wood, C.O. Camp Norway, 1931."
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"Japanese Americans Eating Meal." Uniformed Japanese American Army members eating bento boxes with other soldiers. Unlabeled soda bottles and tea cups are on the table.
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Crown gathered around man speaking in front of industrial architecture. In the distance, a man appears to be installing a utility pole.
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"Camp Hankens - 1935." Group of soldiers pose with tents in the background.
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"Camp Hankens - 1935." Group of soldiers pose with tents in the background.
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"Co.1 - 186th infantry - Camp Hankens - 1935, Capt. Anderson, C.O." Group of soldiers pose with tents in the background.
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"Co.1 - 186th infantry - Camp Hankens - 1935, Capt. Anderson, C.O." Group of soldiers pose with tents in the background.
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Military Band plays outdoors with two tubas and a flute. Tents and coniferous trees are pictured in the background.
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Army officers pose in a line to get food outside. Cooks hold wooden buckets and a plate of doughnuts.
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Three Army officers balancing on a horse with other officers looking on. Men in suits also watch from a covered areas in the distance.
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Army officers pose in front of the Mess Hall, taking plates of pie from the tray of a cook. Sign in the background reads, "1418 MESS ENL. MEN."
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ca. 1934. Congressional Inspection at Fort Lewis. Group portrait of men, including Army officers, and women on the brick steps of multi-doored, colonnaded building. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma Times. (WSHS)
Fort Lewis (Wash.); Military facilities--Wash.;
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In November of 1934, the $90,000 chapel at Fort Lewis had been recently completed. The chapel was a two-story brick structure with a colonnaded entry and a rose window above. The chapel was the showpiece of the 5 1/2 million dollar development program at Fort Lewis. During a six year period, 80 new buildings were built, as well as roads and a new water supply system. The bill for the work was covered by the federal government and provided jobs for thousands in the depression weakened economy. (T. Times 11/23/1934, pg. 1) (WSHS)
Fort Lewis (Wash.); Military facilities--Wash.; Chapels--Fort Lewis;
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Army Day at Fort Lewis. Rear Admiral E. B. Fenner, Naval Commander at Bremerton, Brigadier General T. E. Merrill, Fort Lewis Commander, Colonel Francis W. Clark, and the commanders' aides return salutes to the 13 guns honoring the naval visitor.
Fort Lewis (Wash.); Fenner, E.B.; Merrill, T.E.; Clark, Francis W.; Saluting;
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Army Day at Fort Lewis. Staff Sergeant H. E. Etheridge, 91st Air Squadron, explains to Leona Schuck of Olympia how the 30-caliber rear flexible machine gun fires 1200 rounds of ammunition per minute. (T.Times, 4/6/1938, p.1).
Arms & armament--Tacoma--1930-1940; Artillery (Weaponry); Fort Lewis (Wash.); Etheridge, H.E.; Schuck, Leona; Fighter planes--1930-1940; Machine guns;
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Young men "chow down" in the Camp Murray Mess Hall during the July 1934 Citizen's Military Training Camp (CMTC). at Camp Murray. They sit at picnic style tables eating, among other things, mashed potatoes and gravy, bread and pie. The camp was a combined training for the CMTC, ROTC and Officers' Reserve Corps. 68 of the 127 boys in CMTC were in camp for the first time. They were assigned to Company K in the infantry. The remainder were divided into Red, White and Blue groups in infantry and field artillery. The boys came from a radius of 100 miles of Ft. Lewis. The ROTC was composed of 79 students from Pacific Northwest Universities. (T. Times 7/13/1934, pg. 1)
Citizens Military Training Camp--Tacoma; Camp Murray (Wash.); Washington National Guard (Tacoma); Military camps--Tacoma--1930-1940;
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Troop B demonstrates some trick riding at Camp A. H. Hankins, the 1935 Washington National Guard encampment at Camp Murray. Three soldiers are head and shoulders above the rest on a single horse as they pose one atop another. Troop B is actually designated as the Headquarters Troop, 24th Cavalry Division, Washington National Guard and it is the oldest military organization in the state. Around 8,000 citizen soldiers from the Northwest took part in the 15 day training. (T. Times 6/12/1935, pg. 1)
Camp Murray (Wash.); Military personnel--1930-1940; Horseback riding; Horses; Washington National Guard, 24th Cavalry Division (Tacoma);
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Military parade at the 1934 Washington National Guard encampment at Camp Murray, the "Camp Draper," featuring covered wagons pulled by horses. Included in the 1934 roster of the Wa. Nat'l. Guard were 32 animals.
Camp Murray (Wash.); Military personnel; Washington National Guard (Wash.); Horses; Covered wagons;
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Cannons and men in field at the Washington National Guard training encampment at Camp Murray. The 1934 exercises were named Camp Draper in honor of Major Sylvester Draper, former Inspector General of the Guard. (filed with Argentum)
Camp Murray (Wash.); Military personnel; Washington National Guard (Wash.); Arms & armament--1930-1940; Covered wagons;
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Big Buddy Day Marymount Military Academy. Norton Clapp, left, with tennis racket shakes hands with a young tennis player over the net on the academy's tennis courts. Building in background. Big Buddy Day was an annual event at the Academy where men and boys could participate in sports and programs together. The school had rigid standards in academics and athletics. The teacher-student ratio was 1-6. By 1974, the military designation and uniforms were dropped and the school became primarily a boarding school catering to the wealthy.
Marymount Military Academy (Spanaway); Private schools--Spanaway; Military education--Spanaway; Clapp, Norton, 1906-1995;
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More than 400 wives and children returned to the United States from China with their soldier husbands and fathers aboard the transport ship, the US Grant. Shortly after boarding the ship, Lieutenant Edwin Messenger's wife gave birth to a baby girl, Diane Grant Messenger, on March 1. Baby Diane is held by an unidentified woman, with Mrs. Messenger affectionately looking on.
Troop movements--1930-1940; Government vessels--1930-1940; Messenger, Diane Grant; Mothers & children--Tacoma--1930-1940;
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Members of the 161st pass in procession at the annual Governor's review June 19, 1938 at Camp Murray. The Governor is reviewing our National Guard troops during their 58th annual training encampment, Camp Aston. Over 3,000 troops took part in the staging. One of the three military bands taking part can be seen in the background. (T. Times 6/20/1938, pg. 1)
Washington National Guard (Wash.); Camp Murray (Wash.); Military uniforms; Military personnel--Tacoma--1930-1940;
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One reservist studies the map while others work on the vehicle during maneuvers at Camp Thomas Aston, held at Camp Murray. the two week field training was held June 11th- 25th, 1938. Over 2600 officers and men were involved.
Washington National Guard (Wash.); Camp Murray (Wash.); Military uniforms; Military personnel--Tacoma--1930-1940;