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- 1942-11-30
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Attic space with a large saw. A man in a hat can be seen crouching on the right hand side.
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Part of Richards Studio Photographs
Attic space with a large saw. A man in a hat can be seen crouching on the right hand side.
Mrs. Duthie, sitting in a rocking chair, on Prospect St., young girl and doll on porch of house. Probably house of George Duthie at 5124 So. Prospect. Mr. Duthie worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad.
ca. 1908. Northern Pacific Railroad workers at South Tacoma Shops. Steam locomotive and crew
ca. 1908. Northern Pacific shops in South Tacoma.
ca. 1908. Steam locomotive No. 10 probably on the Tacoma & Eastern Railroad outside Mineral, Washington.
ca. 1910. G. W. O'Brien, contractor, and men laying pipe in South Tacoma.
ca. 1908. Garret W. O'Brien, contractor, and men laying pipe in South Tacoma.
ca. 1908. Garret W. O'Brien, contractor, and men laying pipe in South Tacoma.
ca. 1908. Water rushing though power generator at Electron Dam.
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Farmers with tools vegetable, etc. Colonial Gardens, Fife. Was close to the Poodle Dog Rest. This was an Italian operation owned by Italians. Before 1918.
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Worker testing lumber with a series of drillings. Various chalk markings can be identified in the wood as well as notes with lined data.
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African American laborer seen in front of what appears to be a large, sealable container for treating lumber with arsenic to prevent rot.
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Laborers shaping and planning lumber outdoors with both electric and nonelectric tools.
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Side view of the Henry Mill & Timber Co. building with smoke pluming in the background. A more rustic wooden structure, crane and frame under construction are in the foreground.
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Worker smiles in front of large planning machine inside. In the distance, a man in a bowler hat and vest looks outside.
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Laborers fastening large wooden planks together on the shoreline. Workers appear to be in front of a pallet with different gauges of plywood.
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Laborers fastening large wooden planks together on the waterfront. A sailing boat and Vashon Island can be seen in the distance.
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Two men in suits and hats observe a laborer move lumber along a series of rollers outside.
View looking south of the Northern Pacific Railroad track along Commencement Bay, Tacoma, Washington Territory, circa 1885. Sidewheeler steamship North Pacific at dock. The Northern Pacific wharf lay below today's Stadium Way and would serve, according to historian Murray Morgan, as a "third world between Old Tacoma and New Tacoma." (Morgan: South on the Sound, p. 48-49) KING-001, TPL-018.
Wharf Scene, Terminus of Northern Pacific Railroad, Tacoma, W.T.
Wharf scene on Commencement Bay, terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Tacoma, Washington Territory. Photograph was taken circa 1885. Masted ships are docked waiting to unload/load cargo.
Northern Pacific Railroad track along Commencement Bay, Tacoma, Washington Territory
Northern Pacific Railroad track along Commencement Bay, Tacoma, Washington Territory, circa 1885. Mt. Tacoma (Rainier) and tideflats in background. The railroad tracks were built on fill dirt. The water-filled half-moon section would also be filled in to become the railroad yard, called appropriately the "half-moon yard." KING-008, G76.1-101 (Digital copy only. No print or negative available).
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Laborers watch on partially covered boardwalk as cranes drop a pallet of lumber. A "No Smoking" and conveyer belt can be seen at the work stations.
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Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation hull in progress.
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Four tall smokestacks on an industrial building.
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Industrial building with laborer in hardhat working in the foreground.
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Men in a field operating an antiquated thresher.
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Laborers at the U.S. Plywood Co. in Seattle.
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Laborer interacting with machinery at the Fischer & Porter Co. West Tacoma Newsprint Co. in Steilacoom, WA.
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A miniature model of a plywood making work room on display at the Douglas Fir Plywood Association Circus. Dolls are exhibited processing the lumber into plywood.
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Display of faux television sets displaying advertising cells at the Douglas Fir Plywood Association Circus.