Harkness Rug Company, a bar, two bar stools, and wall-mounted shelves. The front of the bar has tacks decoratively shaping an anchor. The same tacks make a pattern over the sides of the bar and along the sides of the shelves.

Bars (Furniture)--Tacoma--1940-1950; Harkness Rug & Furniture Co. (Tacoma);

Set up in Mr. Paul's house. Benjamin Paul was president and manager of Western Iron & Wire Works who ordered image. (WSHS)

Paul, Benjamin--Homes & haunts; Living rooms--1920-1930; Western Iron and Wire Works (Tacoma);

Irwin-Jones Motor Company, a Nalley's Potato Chip delivery truck. The Dodge truck has the name, "Ray Beeber Food Sales, Klamath Falls, Oregon", on the side of the door. The covered back end of the truck has painted signs for "Nalley's" and "Nalley's fresh Potato Chips, Fresh-Crisp-Delicious".

Irwin-Jones Motor Co. (Tacoma); Nalley's, Inc. (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Dodge trucks;

Catholic Shrines in a home across the street from St. Leo's Church and School. For Mr. Riley. (Argentum)

Saints; Religious articles; Shrines--Tacoma;

Ordered by E.J. Elmore for the Broadway Furniture and Electric Center. Legs for the table and chairs are fashioned from metal tubing that has been bent into configurations to support the chairs and to make table legs and brought to a high sheen by chroming. The chair seats and backs as well as the rectangular table surface are made of plastic.

Tables; Seating furniture--Tacoma--1940-1950; Metalwork--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Ordered by E.J. Elmore for the Broadway Furniture and Electric Center. Legs for the table and chairs are fashioned from metal tubing that has been bent into configurations to support the chairs. A larger metal tube has been used for the table's pedistal. The metal has been brought to a high sheen by chroming. The chair seats and backs as well as the round table surface are made of plastic.

Tables; Seating furniture--Tacoma--1940-1950; Metalwork--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Exterior of Allen Johnson home for Coleman Company, Inc. A two-story, clapboard and shingle residence with dormer painted white on a narrow lot. Concrete steps lead up from the sidewalk. Photograph taken on September 26, 1946.

Houses--1940-1950; Johnson, Allen--Homes & haunts;

Interior of Allen Johnson home for Coleman Company, Inc., showing a sitting room with a fireplace. Throw rugs are used over the wooden floor.

Houses--1940-1950; Johnson, Allen--Homes & haunts; Fireplaces;

After operating a restaurant in the Tacoma Savings and Loan Building on South 9th Street for 20 years, Chris Sivertsen opened Sivertsen's Cafe, a restaurant and soda fountain at 321 East 26th Street, on October 18, 1946. He is ready to serve his patrons in the new location with Mrs. Osenton as chef in charge of cooking. Ordered by F. B. Wines Company. (T.Times, 10/17/1946, p.4) SSPA-17-2015

Sivertsen, Chris; Soda fountains--Tacoma--1940-1950; Restaurants--Tacoma--1940-1950; Sivertsen's Cafe (Tacoma);

Smith and Murray, trusses. William D. Smith and Clyde E. Murray were consulting engineers in Tacoma.

Roof trusses--Tacoma--1940-1950; Building construction--Tacoma--1940-1950; Architectural elements;

A printing press. A large roll of paper feeds into the machine from the right side. Three sets of cams turn the presses down on the paper before it is pulled forward through the machine. Part of the printing machinery at Pioneer Inc. printers.

Printing presses; Printers; Pioneer, Inc. (Tacoma);

The congregation at the Assembly of God and the interior of the church building. Young children sit in the congregation near the front. The church is filled with people. Some people sit in the aisles and more people stand in the doorways at the back and along the sides.

Churches--Tacoma; Assembly of God (Tacoma);

Danish Brotherhood Play. Three men and two women on a small stage containing a living room set furnished with two spinning wheels. (Argentum)

Danish Brotherhood (Tacoma); Theatrical productions--Tacoma--1920-1930;

Douglas Fir Plywood Association. A woman enters this newly built kitchen from another part of the house. A new refrigerator stands near the back door. Believed to be the model prefabricated house built for Win Wilson at 2810 North Proctor. In 1946 Tacoma manufactured 183,748,761 square feet of plywood. By this time plywood had been found suitable for building and construction, for sub-flooring, sheathing, ceilings, partitions, etc. About 1/2 of the plywood production went into the building trades and 1/2 went into industrial channels for manufacturing into furniture and other articles.

Prefabricated houses; Dwellings--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Douglas Fir Plywood Association. This view shows one end of the living room entered from the kitchen. A large set of windows nearly fills one end of the room. A dining table and chairs fit by the windows. An easy chair, a sofa, end tables and a coffee table will seat several people.

Prefabricated houses; Dwellings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Living rooms--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Douglas Fir Plywood. The living room showing the fireplace with a stone tile wall above the brick surround. This end of the room has two sets of large windows with additional seating.

Prefabricated houses; Dwellings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Living rooms--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Joe Loveridge funeral flowers at mausoleum. The area around the walls of the mausoleum are filled with flowers hung with ribbons, "Brother", "Dad", "Uncle". The City Directory indicates Joseph L. Loveridge lived at 4205 Asotin and worked as an inspector at the State Vehicle Safety Inspection Station.

Memorial rites & ceremonies--Tacoma--1940-1950; Loveridge, Joe--Death & burial; Flowers; Bouquets;

Harkness Rug Company. New bed design with armrests, a radio and alarm clock built into the head board. Matching dressers with lamps on top are on either side of the bed.

Beds; Clothes chests--Tacoma; Lamps;

Harkness Rug Company. New bed design with armrests, a radio and alarm clock built into the twin beds head board. Matching dressers with lamps on top are on either side of the bed.

Beds; Clothes chests--Tacoma; Lamps;

Institutional kitchen at Western State Hospital in Lakewood. For F.S. Lang Manufacturing Company. (Argentum)

Mental institutions--Lakewood; Asylums--Lakewood; Institutional care--Lakewood; Western State Hospital (Lakewood); Stoves--1920-1930; Kitchens--1920-1930;

S. H. Kress & Co. opened at 934 Broadway in October of 1925. The Kress 5-10-25 Store was a fixture in the Tacoma business district until 1972. Bags of popcorn hang on the backdrop of this window display.They fill stands in the window and popcorn tumbles out all over the floor in a mouth-watering display. "It's Fresh! It's Hot! Take Home a Bag." The old Kress building is now the Children's Museum of Tacoma.

Popcorn--Tacoma--1940-1950; Window displays--Tacoma--1940-1950; Variety stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; S.H. Kress & Co. (Tacoma);

For I.W. Johnson Engineering Company. An interior view of a sawmill near Packwood, Washington. A large, radial-arm saw, upper center, cuts lumber to length. A narrow conveyor belt seen in the foreground moves lumber through the mill.

Saws; Mills--Packwood--1940-1950; Logs; Lumber industry--Packwood--1940-1950; Woodcutting--Packwood--1940-1950;

For I.W. Johnson Engineering Company. An interior view of a sawmill near Packwood, Washington. Logs just delivered to the mill have already been cut into convenient lengths (usually 32 feet) for the machines that will have the next go at cutting the logs into lumber. (Fortune Magazine, April 1934)

Saws; Mills--Packwood--1940-1950; Logs; Lumber industry--Packwood--1940-1950; Woodcutting--Packwood--1940-1950;

For I.W. Johnson Engineering Company. An interior view of a sawmill near Packwood, Washington. A log, with one side already sawed off having passed through the "head-rig" of the mill, has been rotated to slice off the opposite side. Once a log had been squared it was milled into lumber.

Saws; Mills--Packwood--1940-1950; Logs; Lumber industry--Packwood--1940-1950; Woodcutting--Packwood--1940-1950;

An interior view of a sawmill near Packwood, Washington. Large logs are stacked on the left while two men operate the "head-rig", one to the right and one in the center, background. The log is being broken down. Running the "head-rig" is a two person operation. The "sawyer", in the center right, stands beside the carriage on which the log is clamped and as the carriage swings the log into the teeth of the saw he signals, with hand signals, to the "setter", on the right, operating the carriage, where and how much to cut. For I.W. Johnson Engineering Company. (Fortune Magazine, April 1934)

Saws; Mills--Packwood--1940-1950; Logs; Lumber industry--Packwood--1940-1950; Woodcutting--Packwood--1940-1950;

For I.W. Johnson Engineering Company. An interior view of a sawmill near Packwood, Washington. The "head-rig", where large logs are "squared" prior to being broken down into lumber, is seen on the right. Chain, similar to that used on bicycles, is being pulled by gears. Because it has teeth on the edges, the chain is able to move lumber through the mill. (Fortune Magazine, April 1934)

Saws; Mills--Packwood--1940-1950; Logs; Lumber industry--Packwood--1940-1950; Woodcutting--Packwood--1940-1950;

For I.W. Johnson Engineering Company. An interior view of a sawmill near Packwood, Washington. Two men, difficult to discern from the large machinery, are in the upper left adjusting a log that is being broken down in the "head-rig". In the foreground rough cut lumber is being moved along by chains seen in open grooves in the surface of the platform. (Fortune Magazine, April 1934)

Saws; Mills--Packwood--1940-1950; Logs; Lumber industry--Packwood--1940-1950; Woodcutting--Packwood--1940-1950;

For I.W. Johnson Engineering Company. An interior view of a sawmill near Packwood, Washington. The "head-rig" is seen in the upper, center right. On the far left a radial-arm saw can be seen cutting lumber to length.

Saws; Mills--Packwood--1940-1950; Logs; Lumber industry--Packwood--1940-1950; Woodcutting--Packwood--1940-1950;

1927 Stadium High School alumni reunion. Many people seated in auditorium. (Argentum)

Stadium High School (Tacoma); Alumni & alumnae--Tacoma; Reunions--Tacoma--1920-1930;

Pioneer Inc., by Sconce Advertising. Printing press. Pioneer Inc. were printers, lithographers and stationers. They advertised they were patentees of Ekonomik Check System, and could supply tru-copy carbon interleaved forms, salesmaster styled stationery, and tru-record loose leaf forms. The company was founded in 1878 at Walla Walla by Phoebe A. Howe. Pioneer Inc. moved to Tacoma in 1887. (City Directory, 1947)

Printing presses; Printers; Pioneer, Inc. (Tacoma);