Washington School 6A Class, photographed inside the school in January of 1937.

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Washington School 6A Class, photographed inside the school in January of 1937.

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General view of Washington School, small children holding hands to form a ring in foreground. Building designed by Frederick Heath, Architect, 1906. The school is named in honor of George Washington.

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Students at Washington School have gathered food for needy families during the school's Thanksgiving basket drive. Juanita Evans, Janice Johnson, Richard Howson, Raymond Demorest, and Robert Sinclair, from left to right, are creating a festive arrangement of produce and home canned, as well as commercially canned, foods on tables decorated with crepe paper. Scarecrows guard the table from the right hand side of photo. Similar drives were in progress at every school in the city. Needy families were instructed to contact the schools directly. It is estimated that schoolchildren in Tacoma will feed 200 families this year. (T.Times,11/23/37, p.16).

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Students from Washington School arrange food to be given away to needy families for Thanksgiving in 1937. The children created an attractive table, over-flowing with generous food baskets of apples, canned goods and other items. They also made scarecrows to add to their "harvest" display. The students are, left to right, Janice Johnson, Juanita Evans, Raymond Demorest (in white shirt), Richard Howson and Robert Sinclair (kneeling with hammer). The individual with curly hair behind the scarecrow was not identified. Similar food drives were being held at every school in Tacoma. It was estimated that schoolchildren in Tacoma would feed 200 families in need this holiday. (T.Times,11/23/37, p.16)

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Washington School 6A graduating class photographed beside their school in January of 1938. The school was built in 1906 and is still in use in 2006. (T. Times) (filed with Argentum)

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Washington School, 6A Class, January of 1939. (filed with Argentum)

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Washington School 6A graduating class, photographed outside the school on January 10, 1940.

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Washington School 6A June 1940 graduating class, photographed outside the school May 13, 1940. Building by Frederick Heath, Architect, 1906. (filed with Argentum)

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Washington School 6A Graduating class, taken in front of school, on May 22, 1941. Building by Frederick Heath, Architect, 1906.

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On the first day of school in 1946, Mary Brady's dog, Tippy followed her to Washington School, 3701 No. 26th Street. Mary, 9, a fourth grade student, had to explain that summer vacation was over for the year, and send Tippy home. (T.Times, 9/4/1946, p.1)

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Four students in Mrs. Elizabeth Dufour's fourth grade class at Washington School, 3701 No. 26th Street, stood at the blackboard in September of 1946 while she went over the list of supplies that they will need to start the 1946-47 school year. Standing to the right of Mrs. Dufour are: (l to r) Nancy Jean Reen, Billy Wingard, Sondra Eckman, and Mary Louise Brady. The other students in the room are unidentified. (T.Times, 9/4/1946, p.1) TPL-8329

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From 1946 to January of 1949, overcrowding was so bad at Washington Grade School, 3701 No. 26th St., that four kindergarten classes and one 4th grade class had to meet at Mason methodist Church, and a second 4th grade class met at the McCormick Branch Public Library. In January, 1949 four new class rooms were ready in a new addition to the building, and when the new term started in September, all the Washington students had either new or newly refinished rooms and a new lunchroom-auditorium. (TNT 1/9/1949 p.A-4) TPL-5794

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This view of the very busy Kindergarten class at Washington School shows two children on an indoor teeter-totter, several sitting around a large table looking at books, some working on art projects, painting on easels, building with notched pieces of 2'x4' lumber and cleaning up with a broom and dust pan. The teacher has all in hand from the front of the classroom. TPL-5714

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A group portrait of the Kindergarten class at Washington School. Displays with a Halloween theme are seen beside the blackboard, perhaps "Five Little Pumpkins". Drawings of nursery rhymes line the top of the area. The girls all wear dresses and several wear saddle shoes. Many of the boys wear suspenders over their striped tee shirts. They have been discussing, "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings, " from R.L. Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.

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