Richards Studio Photographic Negatives
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This collection contains a variety of different sized photographic negatives (4x5, 6x8, and 9x12) of Richards Studio photography from roughly 1920s through to the early 1960s. These negatives depict a wide range of commercial subject matter including local clubs and organizations, business and industry, sports, public events, city government.
Richards Photography Studio
D15832-10
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Two furniture repairmen wearing button-up shirts work on the underside of a rocking chair.
RSN-06
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Unidentified industrial landscape with Mt. Rainier in the distance.
RSN-07
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"Mennaker and wife, Big Fish." Man and woman holding a rod carrying three large fish. They are standing on a rug placed on a downtown sidewalk.
RSN-10
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"Japanese Americans Eating Meal." Uniformed Japanese American Army members after a meal. An older woman in furs listens to conversation.
RSN-13
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"Fidelity, not used." Fidelity building interior before demolition in 1949.
RSN-24
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Interior of the machinist room of the McNeil Island Federal Prison. Prison guard and two men can be seen speaking around a work desk at the right side of the room.
RSN-31
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Turner Towing company façade with four vehicles, two antiquated tow trucks, and a mechanic walking out from the garage area.
RSN-36
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"Medical Detachment, 148th Field Artillery - Major Wood, C.O. Camp Norway, 1931."
RSN-33
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Two men holding a large saw for logging with many onlookers and vehicles in the background.
41007-2
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Hogan's Fine Foods store exterior at night with active neon signage. Sign in window reads "open every Sunday 11am till 9pm." There are two registers, a meat counter and produce section visible.
RSN-03
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Elevated perspective of the Olympus Hotel
RSN-08
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"Mennaker and wife, Big Fish." Man and woman smile holding a rod carrying three large fish.
RSN-12
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"Extra pictures of crane wreck on Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation."
RSN-14
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Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation hull in progress.
RSN-15
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"Launching the Destroyer, Frankford." USS Frankford (DD-497)
RSN-16
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Brown's Point with residential houses and lighthouse along the shoreline.
RSN-27
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Laborer laying gas line downtown on 9th Ave. with the Hotel Winthrop and Roxy (now Pantages) Theater in the distance.
165-91
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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.
1604-5
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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."
1663-2
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"Co.1 - 186th infantry - Camp Hankens - 1935, Capt. Anderson, C.O." Group of soldiers pose with tents in the background.
1663-21
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"Camp Hankens - 1935." Group of soldiers pose with tents in the background.
RSN-22
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Three men holding a beer stein in the meeting room of an unidentified fraternal organization while a seated man looks at the camera. Three of the four men are wearing lapel pins.
RSN-11
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"Candid shots of Samuel Crippen (Tacoma Caf
RSN-21
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View of the waterfront to Younglove Grocery Co. Industrial buildings on the Port of Tacoma can be seen in the distance.
D15832-7
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Two young men in a furniture repair shop inspect the tubing of a speaker system.
D15832-15
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Two female upholsterers at work repairing a couch with a Kraft cottage cheese container holding nails resting on the cushion.