The steamer "Santa Inez" at Tidewater Mill. On August 21, 1921, the "Santa Inez" was docked at the Tidewater Mill, 3901 E. 11th St., located on the east side of the Hylebos Waterway. She was being loaded with timber, probably similar to the logs floating in the photograph's foreground. An additional stop for the ship was the St. Paul dock for more lumber loading. The "Santa Inez" sailed for San Pedro on August 24th. G49.1-079 (TDL 8-23-21, p. 7-article)

Cargo ships--1920-1930; Shipping--Tacoma--1920-1930; Tidewater Mill Co. (Tacoma); Lumber industry--Tacoma--1920-1930; Logs;

A truckload of coal is being delivered to the Lucerne Block, 901 Tacoma Avenue South, by Economy Fuel in August of 1921. The fuel company's driver pauses his shifting of the coal to gaze at the camera. The coal is being deposited in the building's coal bin through a coal hole in the sidewalk. The buildings across the street would be demolished in the early 1950s so the County-City Building with jail could be built on the site. In the far background is Central School now used by the Tacoma School District as its Administrative Building.

Economy Fuel Co. (Tacoma); Fuel trade--Tacoma--1920-1930; Coalholes--Tacoma; Trucks--Tacoma--1920-1930; Central School (Tacoma);

September, 1921, display of "Old Faithful" brand of canned goods and apple cider. Spread across the long customer desk located at the Puget Sound Bank & Trust is a display of canned goods and cider under the "Old Faithful" brand. "Old Faithful," according to the framed poster, put its name on pickles and vinegar, pork & beans, and canned vegetables. The Northern Pickle Co. of Tacoma manufactured "Old Faithful" products. These were part of the refreshments served at the bank's reception/housewarming on Saturday, September 24th. The bank (later Puget Sound National Bank) was celebrating its 31st anniversary where the public was invited to view the enlargement and renovation of their skyscaper's ground floor. The interior was finished in soft gray marble, Caen stone, ivory plastering and statuary bronze. G34.1-140 (TNT 9-22-21, p. 6-article; TNT 9-24-21, p. 1+)

Merchandise display--Tacoma--1920-1930; Canned foods; Puget Sound Bank & Trust (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma;

Construction appeared complete on the new ramp leading to Cliff Avenue (name changed to Stadium Way later in November of 1921) in this November 2, 1921, photograph. The new viaduct was pictured looking north from Pacific Ave. The building with the Central Police Station sign was the (Old) City Hall, 625 Commerce St. The cost of the project was $153,535, including improvements to Cliff Avenue, and work was done by Albertson, Cornell & Walsh. The reinforced concrete 440-foot long viaduct started from 7th St., extended on Pacific around (Old) City Hall, and joined with Cliff Avenue below the gulch. The work was completed in 120 days with the hope that it would alleviate congested traffic in the 9th & Broadway area. The new driveway was open to the public on Friday, November 11, 1921. G62.1-051 (TNT 6-17-21, p. 1-article; Tacoma Sunday Ledger 7-10-21, B-5-article); Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 11-6-21, B-5)

Road construction--Tacoma--1920-1930; Old City Hall (Tacoma);

Dodge automobile traveling on new Fairfax Bridge in December of 1921. According to Griffith Motor Co., Dodge Brothers dealers in Tacoma, this Dodge was among the first cars to cross the new bridge which spans the gulch near Fairfax. Residents residing near the coal mining town of Fairfax were finally able to have highway access with the opening of the new Carbon River-Fairfax Road on December 17, 1921. An $80,000 bridge, known as the James R. O'Farrell Bridge, Carbon River Bridge or Fairfax Bridge, spanned the Carbon River canyon in Pierce County. Local politicians and residents had pushed for twenty years to have highway access; prior to the bridge construction, the only way out of the area was through the Northern Pacific Railroad or a long hike overland. At the time of construction, the bridge, standing 240 feet above the river, was the highest bridge in the state. It was nearly 500 feet in length. G15.1-035 (TNT 5-19-21, www.wsdot.wa.gov/environment/eao/cultres/bridges/bridge_pierce_072.htm, www.nwhighways.amhosting.net/165.html; Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 1-1-22, C-5)

Bridges--Washington; Fairfax Bridge; Dodge automobile;

The Fairfax Bridge, south of Carbonado on SR-165, was dedicated on December 17, 1921. The one-lane bridge, built in 1921 at a cost of $80,000, spans the Carbon River Canyon and provides access to Fairfax and the Carbon River entrance to Mt. Rainier National Park. Officially named the James R. O'Farrell Bridge, it is one of only two extant three-hinged steel arches in the State of Washington and at 240 feet, was the highest bridge in the state at the time of its construction. G15.1-037; TPL-3656. (TNT 12-19-21, www.wsdot.wa.gov/environment/eao/culres/bridges/bridge_pierce_072.htm, www.nwhighways.amhosting.net/165.html)

Bridges--Washington; Fairfax Bridge;

Summit View Farms. This agricultural scene photographed in February of 1922 featured a view of a farmhouse and outlying buildings including a barn located in the Summit View neighborhood. Owner of the property was not identified. TPL-536; G6.1-105

Farmhouses; Barns;

Summit View Farms. General view of a farm in the Summit View area of Pierce County, photographed by Marvin Boland on February 22, 1922. Wooden farmhouse, unidentified man with horse, tree stumps and misc. buildings.

Farmhouses; Barns; Horses;

23 members of the Girls (Junior) Advertising Club of Tacoma posed for a group portrait on April 4, 1922, at their regular meeting at the Commercial Club. All the young women were well-dressed and all wore hats. The club is composed of businesswomen banded under the motto "greater efficiency, joint interests, ability and cooperation." TPL-3210; G24.1-011 (Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 4-2-22, D-5-article)

Girls Advertising Club (Tacoma); Women--Clubs--Tacoma; Women--Clothing & dress--Tacoma--1920-1930;

Wood framed farmhouse with extended porch and surrounding buildings including a barn located in the Summit View area of Pierce County. Unidentified crops, perhaps beans, are preparing to grow in the foreground. Property owners were not identified.

Farms; Farmhouses; Barns; Plants;

Farmhouse and outlying buildings in the Summit View area. Crops have been planted in neat rows on this unidentified farm in April of 1922. TPL-2014; G6.1-106

Farmhouses; Farms; Plants;

The Trinity Episcopal Church choir posed outside on grassy lawns on Easter Sunday in 1922. An American flag is held by a choir member in the back row. The Boys Choir was organized in 1921 with a charter membership of 10. There are now 35 boys in the choir with the average age of 11. The adults pictured above are workers in the church. Trinity Episcopal was located at 316 North "K" and had been built in 1889. It has since been demolished. G22.1-083 (TNT 4-24-22, p. 9)

Choirs (Music)--1920-1930; Choirboys; Singers; Flags--United States;

Blewett harvester. Sign attached to the machine indicates that this was a "self-propelled" harvester manufactured by the Blewett Tractor Co., presumably not requiring horses or mules. The company was not found in the 1922 Tacoma City Directory although it had been listed the previous year. G6.1-039 (photograph was damaged on left bottom corner)

Harvesting machinery;

Children from Grant (Elementary) School were dressed in a variety of costumes depicting other nations in late April of 1922. Some of the clothing was undoubtedly retrieved from the children's own homes, perhaps relics from older generations. It is believed that the children, numbering 40, had sung and danced in a musical play, "A Meeting of Nations," before the Grant P.T.A. on April 28, 1922. The Grant P.T.A. had its biggest meeting of the year to support the 30-10 initiative which sought to equalize school funding. Grant School is located at 1018 North Prospect and was named for former President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant. (Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 4-30-22, D-7-article)

School children--Tacoma--1920-1930; Grant School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1920-1930; Costumes;

On May 2, 1922, a group of entertainers identified as the Hick Minstrels posed on stage during dress rehearsal before Mrs. D.E. Fleming, musician, and G.H. Wallace, director, at the piano. The men's club of St. Mark's Episcopal Church was presenting its annual minstrel show on May 3rd and 4th at the church's community house. An Abe Lincoln look-alike is in the center of the photograph in front of the American flag. The introduction of live chickens, ducks and geese on stage during the show emphasized the bucolic setting and theme. Six "vaudeville" acts followed the minstrel show. Names of the men's club participants were listed in the News Tribune article dated 5-3-1922. (TDL 5-1-22, p. 7; TNT 5-3-22, p. 6) G64.1-037

Minstrel shows--Tacoma--1920-1930; Musical revues & comedies--Tacoma--1920-1930; Hick Minstrels (Tacoma); Fleming, D.E.--Family; Wallace, G.H.; St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Tacoma);

Hick Minstrels. St. Mark Episcopal's men's club was dressed and ready to rehearse its annual minstrel show in May of 1922. Fake whiskers, bright plaid shirts, kerchiefs and straw-chewing were all in evidence. The men were preparing for their May 3rd and 4th performances at the church's community house. An "Honest Abe" stand-in and the American flag lent a patriotic touch to the proceedings. Seated at the piano was Mrs. D.E. Fleming with G.H. Wallace, the program's director, at her side. G40.1-049 (TNT 5-3-22, p. 6-article & alternate photograph)

Minstrel shows--Tacoma--1920-1930; Musical revues & comedies--Tacoma; Hick Minstrels (Tacoma); Fleming, D.E.--Family; Wallace, G.H.;

Posed in front of the Tacoma Hotel on May 8, 1922, are members of the National Executive Board of the P.T.A. and National Congress of Mothers. They were in town for the 26th annual national convention of the group. Second row from the top wearing a feathered black hat is Mrs. Harry Zimmerhackel of Colorado. Standing in the second row, extreme right in fur stole, is Mrs. Eugene Crutcher, also of Colorado. G30.1-087

Meetings--Tacoma--1920-1930; Parent-Teacher Association; Tacoma Hotel (Tacoma); Zimmerhackel, Harry--Family; Crutcher, Eugene--Family;

Stump burning. The public was invited to view a demonstration of the new Zysset stump and root burner all day Saturday, May 13, 1922, at a Summit View farm. Three burners were to burn out stumps and roots from a tract of land owned by Electric Logging Co. of Tacoma. The Zysset machine claimed to burn through a four-foot stump in 24 hours. This photograph of a large hole dug on one side of the wide stump was one of a series of pictures taken by Marvin Boland of the event. G75.1-070 (TNT 5-11-22, p. 13-article)

Tree stumps;

The staff of Haering's Grocetorium enjoyed a fine dinner in the Stone Room of the Tacoma Hotel on May 18, 1922. The occasion was Haering's annual appreciation banquet for its employees. 50 employees and officers of the grocery chain were in attendance; names are listed in the Tacoma Daily Ledger's May 22, 1922, edition of the newspaper. Haering's, founded by Nicolaus Haering in 1913, was a chain noted for "help yourself service." G31.1-003 (TDL 5-22-22, p. 9)

Banquets--Tacoma--1920-1930; Haering's Grocetorium (Tacoma); Tacoma Hotel (Tacoma);

The Japanese freighter "Arabia Maru" moored at Milwaukee Dock on May 24, 1922. She would sail for Hong Kong the following day. Another vessel is pictured behind her which is also believed to be of Japanese origin. G49.1-092

Cargo ships--Japanese; Shipping--Tacoma--1920-1930;

Venus in dry dock. This boat, dubbed "Venus," was owned by Dr. S.L. Blair and built by Skansie Bros. of Gig Harbor. She was one of the newer boats owned by members of the Tacoma Yacht Club. Measuring 53-feet by 11-feet, she was powered by a 36 h.p. Enterprise engine with cruising speed of 8 mph. All controls were in the pilothouse. "Venus" contained the owner's state room, quarters for several guests including a galley and dining salon. Three other boats are afloat in the background including the "Prosperity" and the "Mary Ellen." G37.1-122 (Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 2-19-22, G-2-article on the "Venus" and alternate picture)

Yachts--Tacoma;

Puget Sound Electric Railway sign for the Interurban line, over the Engh Brothers Public Market in Puyallup at 110-12 No. Meridian St. The streetcars left Puyallup for Tacoma every hour from 5:45 a.m. to 10:40p.m. Family commutation books were $2.50 for 20 rides. A delivery wagon for the Federal Bakery is parked outside the market. TPL-236; G66.2-030 ("To Tacoma By Trolley" by Warren W. Wing; "Tacoma by Trolley" trolley schedule by McCormack Bros. Inc.)

Puget Sound Electric Railway (Tacoma); Engh Bros. Public Market (Puyallup); Billboards--Puyallup--1920-1930;

A class in "Primary Methods" was taught by Mrs. Hayner during the 1922 summer session at the College of Puget Sound. There were several different classes in the Religious Education department being held at the college, then located at 602 No. Sprague Ave. The small class posed on the steps of the school on August 2, 1922. G67.1-019

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Students--Tacoma--1920-1930;

The National Convention of the Order of Runeberg was held in Tacoma from August 10-12, 1922. Some of the officers and delegates, plus a small boy, posed for a group portrait in front of the First Church of the Evangelical Assocation, 1224 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (then "K" St.). There were 750 delegates and visiting members in attendance at the three-day convention. Alex Keoll of Seattle was elected the new president succeeding John Forsman of Duluth. The convention would reconvene in Superior, Wisconsin in 1926. The Order of Runeberg is an organization of Swedish-Finns and is named after Johan Ludvig Runeberg, a noted Finnish poet. His work was based on Swedish culture. (TDL 8-11-22, p. 8-article; Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 8-13-22, A-11)

Order of Runeberg (Tacoma); Meetings--Tacoma--1920-1930;

George C. Cabell, Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, raised the American flag on Alta Vista in Mount Tacoma's Rainier National Park on August 30, 1922. Founded in 1864, the Knights of Pythias was the first fraternal organization to receive a charter from the United States Congress. Col. Cabell, of Norfolk, Virginia, was the national head of the organization. He had been making a tour of the West and was the guest of the Tacoma Pythians on August 29-30th. The Tacoma Lodge held their annual sunrise services on Alta Vista where 25 Pythians plus Col. Cabell were present. Col. Cabell also officiated at the dedication of a permanent steel flagpole and flag raising at that time. (TDL 8-29-22, p. 3-article; TDL 8-30-22, p. 5-article)

Cabell, George C.; Knights of Pythias; Flags--United States; Flagpoles; Rainier, Mount (Wash.);

Picnic on Benbow Inn property. There are mounds of dirty dishes and wash basins spread out on picnic tables on September 9, 1922, on the grounds of the Benbow Inn (Benbow Lakes Resort). The men and women grouped together under the towering firs were believed to be staff assisting at a picnic. The Pierce County property contained five small lakes and attracted much of its clientele from Seattle. TPL-478;

Picnics--Kapowsin; Benbow Lakes Resort (Kapowsin);

Lettering on the building adjacent to the farmhouse indicates that this may be the "Just-Man-Farm" as viewed on September 13, 1922. A wire fence separates the wood framed home with dormer from the barn-like structure and outlying croplands. This farm may have been located in the Puyallup Valley. G6.1-014

Farms; Farmhouses;

Unidentified men aboard what appears to be a fishing vessel awaiting launching at the J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. in April of 1930. This boat is possibly the "California" of Los Angeles. Owned by Tom Martin of Los Angeles, she was 73-feet long with a 19-foot beam and powered by a 175 hp diesel engine. The approximate cost, per the Daily Ledger, was $29,000. Martinac Shipbuilding had been a part of Tacoma's waterfront since 1924. The company built and repaired fishing and work boats. (TDL 5-8-30, p. 3-photograph of the "California" in water)

J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fishing boats--Tacoma--1930-1940;

The 1930 McKinley Avenue baseball team, apparently also known as "McKinley Hill," played in the five-team City League. The team won their season opener on April 26, 1930, with an 11-inning victory over the 38th Streeters. On May 1st, they battled to a 0-0 tie in their second game against South Tacoma in the Lincoln Bowl. Taking on the role of player-coach was shortstop Vince Duckwitz. (TDL 5-2-30, p. 8-article) TPL-9235; G53.1-004

Baseball players--Tacoma--1930-1940; Lincoln Bowl (Tacoma);

Members of the Girls' Corner Club of Tacoma pose with the pilot of this biplane located at the Mueller-Harkins Field in early May of 1930. The Corner Club was a women's support and social group, an off-shoot of the club originating in British Columbia in 1917. Eleanor Renstrom (seated in plane) and Dorothy Allen (outside) experienced a trial flight with Washington Aeronautical Corporation pilot George Fisher before the girls made the actual flight to Olympia to scatter flowers over a white birch tree to be planted by club members on the grounds of the executive mansion. The white birch is the official Washington State mothers' tree. G12.1-036 (TNT 5-10-30, p. 12)

Biplanes--Tacoma--1930-1940; Girls' Corner Club of Tacoma (Tacoma); Renstrom, Eleanor; Allen, Dorothy; Fisher, George; Air pilots--Tacoma;