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Erna Spannagel Tilley Papers

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Includes correspondence, scrapbooks, and photographs. Also included are drafts of Tilley's writing projects, particularly her book on the history of the Tacoma Little Theater.

Erna Spannagel Tilley

Photograph album

Photograph album with captions. The family and friends of Erna Spannagel Tilley are featured, including her parents and siblings in Spokane, husband and children in Tacoma. There are pages with Olympus Manor and Orre Nobles, Frank Pixley, Thomas Handforth, Corwin Chase and Gene Tunney. Later Photographs show Erna Tilley as City Hostess with the Tacoma Welcome Wagon and her daughter Margaret working at the Tacoma News Tribune as the society editor. Enclosed are a photograph of Orre Nobles with canoe and biplane and a hand-decorated envelope with a card and photograph commerorating the demise of Olympus Manor.

Photograph album created by Margaret Tilley

Photograph album with captions, created during Margaret Tilley's employment in Nanking, China. Features U.S.Army officers, candid photographs of farmers in the countryside, spectators at Chinese New Year's celebration, as well as market scenes in Shanghai and Nanking.

Scrapbook with playbills

Playbills for local and visiting music, theater and dance productions. Featured artists include Katherine Cornell, Tallulah Bankhead, Lily Pons, Claudio Arrau, Beatrice Lillie, and The Trapp Family.

Photographs, Erna Spannagel Tilley Family

Portraits of Erna Spannagel Tilley while at the University of Washington and during her marriage, one by J. Barton Holyer. Portrait of Margaret Tilley for her high school graduation taken by Virna Haffer. Three uncaptioned snapshots. Envelope with five prints of family headstones in Spokane's Riverside Park.

Two large photographs

Two photographs with captions, Ida Morisse and Ian wolfe named on one, and "Ian Wolfe in cast as 'Bevan' New York production" The Barretts of Wimpole Street on the other.

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