Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities. Girls in dark hooded costumes dancing in circle around witch. Large crowd and school building dominate the background.

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Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities. Parents and friends gathering for May day performance. Rows of wooden folding chairs have been placed on the lawn by the school building.

Private Schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Holidays--Tacoma; May Day--Tacoma;

Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities. Pages and queen procession walking through divided line of students. Photographer, wearing a beret, is positioning a large format box camera. Spectators and building in background.

Private Schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Holidays--Tacoma; May Day--Tacoma; May poles--Tacoma;

Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities. Procession of young women, wearing long, formal dresses and carrying floral bouquets, walking between divided lines of students.

Private Schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Holidays--Tacoma; May Day--Tacoma; May poles--Tacoma;

Annie Wright Seminary Christmas Doll Bazaar held December 4, 1937. The Senior girls have arranged baby dolls in an old shoe; the theme is based on the nursery rhyme "Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe." Standing L to r: Margaret McGinnis, Shirley Robbins, Frances Young; kneeling, Ann Murray and Martha Turner. The seniors received an award of merit for their dolls and exhibit. Left corner torn on photograph. (T. Times, 12/11/37, p.7)

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ca. 1925. Annie Wright Seminary under construction. The Tudor Gothic building was designed by Sutton, Whitney & Dugan, architects. The Seminary first opened in 1884 at 611 Division Street. The school on Tacoma Ave No., which opened to students in the Fall of 1924, appears barren without its lush green lawns and landscaping. (WSHS- negative A852-0)

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Private schools--Tacoma; Building construction--Tacoma--1920-1930;

Annie Wright Seminary annual doll bazaar. Eight girls around table with dolls, sign "8th Grade". The exhibit theme is a school classroom. Some dolls appear to be Madame Alexander dolls. Mrs. Wilson was in charge. (T.Times Society, 12/5/1938, p. 9)

Private schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Holidays--Tacoma; Dolls; Bazaars--Tacoma; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Ready for a game of tennis on the courts of Annie Wright Seminary in March of 1939 are Delta Delta Delta sorority sisters Jacklyn Outouse and Virginia Davis. The Tri-Delts attend the University of Washington and are home on spring break.

Tennis--Tacoma; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940; Outouse, Jacklyn; Davis, Virginia; Delta Delta Delta (Tacoma);

Annie Wright Seminary 1940 May Day activities. Mary Kent Hewitt, Queen in bamboo chair, surrounded by her Royal Court. Flag bearer at far left. The Queen's Court included maid of honor Elizabeth Ann Love, pages Anne Mueller and Patricia Davis, heralds Dick Pessemier and Patricia Pinches, flower girls Madeline Merrill and Judith Ann Whitney, scepter bearer George Bianchi, crown bearer Janit Schimke and train bearers Sharon Connor and Ann Rowland. (T. Times, 5/11/1940, p. 5-article).

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