Two female upholsterers at work repairing a couch. A uniformed female of the "Camp Hospital Council Service" oversees the work.

Two male upholsterers repair working on a couch inside of a furniture repair shop with hanging lights and a stove pipe in the background.

Two young men in a furniture repair shop inspect the tubing of a speaker system.

Back of PhotoIra Davisson Speaks at Tribune to pioneers of light plant.
Site of Tacoma's first power plant 1886-1938. A Standard Oil Speakerphone and Announcer Truck amplifies Davisson as a small crowd listens. The Tacoma Ice Company can be seen in the background with an advertisement for Playmate Soap painted across the buildin

Ira Davisson Speaks at Tribune to pioneers of light plant.

Site of Tacoma's first power plant 1886-1938. A Standard Oil Speakerphone and Announcer Truck amplifies Davisson as a small crowd listens. The Tacoma Ice Company can be seen in the background with an advertisement for Playmate Soap painted across the building.

Diverse group of sailors and laborers on board the Army transport BURNSIDE

Group posing on deck of a ship.

Back of Photo:
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.

Crowd gathered around man speaking in front of industrial architecture. In the distance, a man appears to be installing a utility pole.

Crown gathered around man speaking in front of industrial architecture. In the distance, a man appears to be installing a utility pole.

Female welders break for lunch with thermoses and lunch pale.

Garage or carriage house with Tudor style roof.

Residential housing structure near a lake with large roof deck.

"Estelle Gould & Jedell" pose with textile, ornate interior woodwork and cat.

Laborers building a boat frame.

Distant view of laborers on a shipyard. Spiked exterior wall can be seen on the left with mountains faintly in the distance.

Dockside shipyard materials with an ad for Drifted Snow "Home Perfected" Flour on the side of a building. There also appears to be some industrial architecture from the Port of Tacoma in the distance.

Worker testing lumber with a series of drillings. Various chalk markings can be identified in the wood as well as notes with lined data.

African American laborer seen in front of what appears to be a large, sealable container for treating lumber with arsenic to prevent rot.

Laborers shaping and planning lumber outdoors with both electric and nonelectric tools.

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.

Worker smiles in front of large planning machine inside. In the distance, a man in a bowler hat and vest looks outside.

Laborer on large concrete block observes another block being moved by a crane on the waterfront.

Side view of large industrial building, workers can be seen digging and sitting along the side of the building wearing hard hats.

Laborers fastening large wooden planks together on the shoreline. Workers appear to be in front of a pallet with different gauges of plywood.

Laborers fastening large wooden planks together on the waterfront. A sailing boat and Vashon Island can be seen in the distance.

Two men in suits and hats observe a laborer move lumber along a series of rollers outside.

Large banquet of Scottish Rite Cathedral members at the Washington Hall.

"Spokane singing group, ARION,German." Members shake hands as man and woman hold up fabric flag.

Interior of engineering office next to lumber mill. Men working at drafting tables can be seen along with two female employees on the left hand side of the picture. One woman appears to be making ruled markings on a map, with a Northern Pacific Railroad map hanging above the workstation.

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.