On March 23, 1936, 2500 soldiers arrived at the Bremerton Naval Yard to participate in "war practice." Troops from Fort Worden arrived by the Coast Artillery cutter Chelan. Soldiers were photographed disembarking, while sailors look on. (Bremerton Sun).

Naval yards & naval stations--Bremerton; Puget Sound Navy Yard (Bremerton); Military personnel--Bremerton--1930-1940;

Stadium High School Maritza Opera. Thirteen students, five girls and eight boys, on steps of building. Four of the boys wear letter sweaters with "S" on front. (filed with Argentum)

Stadium High School (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Operas & operettas--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Mrs. Sunya Pratt, leader of the Tacoma Buddhist Center, is ordained as the first female Buddhist Priest in the United States. Born in England, the daughter of a philosopher, she was acquainted with Buddhism as a young teen. She began her active study in 1934 with Rev. Robert Clifton and dropped her given name Gladys to adopt the name of Sunya. On April 23, 1936 she was ordained as a Upasika Bhikuni and given the name Rev. Tei-un. (T Times 4/22/1936 p.1; 4/24/1936, pg. 18) TPL6622

Pratt, Sunya; Buddhism--Tacoma; Clergy; Tacoma Buddhist Center (Tacoma); Priests--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Sumner High School girls pose in some of the more than 500 acres of sunshine yellow daffodils in the Puyallup Valley. They are promoting the 1936 Daffodil Festival to be held in April of 1936. This photo was used as stock footage by the Richards studio. In 1953, they superimposed a mountain range and Mount Rainier in the background of the photo. See Series A76735 image 1 for the altered image.

Daffodils--Puyallup; Meadows--Puyallup; Girls--Puyallup--1930-1940; Croplands;

Eight young women wearing matching dresses with large white collars and two other young women kneel in a daffodil field to pick bouquets of flowers. These are Sumner High School girls posed in some of Puyallup Valley's 500 acres of sunshine yellow daffodil blossoms. The girls in the matching dresses are identified as Mary Thompson, Betty Tompkins, Betty Leslie, Calista Fawcett, Marjorie Setter, Jean Elliott, Connie Crest and Mildred McGuire. Stock negative. (T. Times 4/16/1936, pg. 1)

Daffodils--Puyallup; Meadows--Puyallup; Girls--Puyallup--1930-1940; Croplands;

Bedroom with twin beds, possibly in the Tacoma General Hospital nurses' quarters, circa 1936. For 85 years, from 1895-1980, Tacoma General ran its own nurse training program. The nurses studied for three years, emerging as Registered Nurses. In its years of operation, Tacoma General graduated 2200 nurses.(filed with Argentum)

Hospitals--Tacoma--1930-1940; Tacoma General Hospital (Tacoma);

Several young women in matching dresses, possibly the Daffodil Festival princesses, pose in April of 1946 with arms full of sunshine yellow daffodils in the famed Puyallup Valley fields. Hills and the snow covered peak of Mount Rainier fill the background. The King Alfred Daffodil almost singlehandedly saved the agricultural economy of the Puyallup Valley after a virus decimated the hops crop in the mid twenties. TPL-8251 (see D2512-3 for original photograph; mountain ranges and Mount Rainier superimposed onto original photograph in 1953)

Daffodils--Puyallup; Meadows--Puyallup; Girls--Puyallup--1930-1940; Rainier, Mount (Wash.);

Tacoma General Hospital. Six women having afternoon tea. (filed with Argentum)

Hospitals--Tacoma--1930-1940; Tacoma General Hospital (Tacoma); Tea parties--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Betty (Mrs. Cecil) Tupper watches her children, left to right, Dorothy, George and Gwen making mud pies. George appears to be involving his teddy bear in the process while baby sister Dorothy looks on from her mom's lap. Gwen is busy eyeing the photographer. Cecil Tupper was assistant manager of Pacific Fruit and Produce Company. (T.Times 4/11/1936, pg. 7)

Tupper, Betty; Tupper, Dorothy; Tupper, George; Tupper, Gwen; Tupper, Cecil--Family; Mothers & children--Tacoma--1930-1940;

In April of 1936, Johnnie Lawson went to the want ads counter of the Tacoma Times newspaper to place a classified ad. Miss Thelma Wallace helped him fill out the paperwork so that he could sell his sidewalk automobile using the newspaper's classified columns. Recognizing that want ads contain some of the most vital information published in daily papers, the Association of Newspaper Classified Advertising Managers set the week of April 19 - 26 for the annual observance of "National Want Ad Week." (T. Times 4/18/1936)

Tacoma Times Publishing Co. (Tacoma); Wallace, Thelma; Lawson, John, Jr.;

First Lutheran Church, taken in April of 1936. General view of brick church by Heath, Gove and Bell, Architects. Construction on the church began in 1925 with the church completed in 1929. Photograph is also numbered D2519 image 11. (photo copied for T. Times, Special Edition Jan or Feb of 1940)

Lutheran churches--Tacoma--1930-1940; First Lutheran Church (Tacoma);

Eight young women holding large bouquets of daffodils walking through a field of daffodil flowers. The Sumner High School girls are wearing matching dresses and two other women are walking behind them. Stock negative. (t. Times 4/16/1936, pg. 1)

Daffodils--Puyallup; Meadows--Puyallup; Girls--Puyallup--1930-1940; Croplands;

Eight Sumner High School girls smile for the camera, their arms loaded with sunshine yellow King Alfred daffodils. The girls are identified as, not in order, Mary Thompson, Betty Tompkins, Betty Leslie, Calista Fawcett, Marjorie Seter, Jean Elliott, Connie Crest and Mildred McGuire. The photo is posed in one of the more than 500 acres of daffodil fields in the Puyallup Valley. The photograph is promotion for the 1936 Daffodil Festival. (T. Times 4/16/1936, pg. 1)

Daffodils--Puyallup; Meadows--Puyallup; Girls--Puyallup--1930-1940; Croplands;

In April of 1936, two nurses welcome a girl entering the Tacoma General School of Nursing for training. One nurse is shaking the woman's hand. The Tacoma General School of Nursing was established in 1895, and closed 85 years later in 1980. In 1936, the hospital was still recovering from the Depression. It had 126 employees, plus the students. However, hospital usage was up, necessitating the reopening of the north end of the second floor. Plus, the American Nurses' Association had adopted the eight-hour work day in the 1930's, meaning that more trained nurses were now needed. (filed with Argentum) ("A House of Mercy" by Mildred Bates, RN)

Hospitals--Tacoma--1930-1940; Tacoma General Hospital (Tacoma); Nurses--Tacoma--1930-1940; Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing (Tacoma);

Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing, circa 1936. Seven nurses studying and writing in note books in the library. The hospital ran its own school for nurses from 1895-1980, requiring three years of study to become a Registered Nurse. The hospital benefited from the student nurses, who performed much of the hospital's work as part of their training. (filed with Argentum)

Hospitals--Tacoma--1930-1940; Tacoma General Hospital (Tacoma); Nurses--Tacoma--1930-1940; Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing (Tacoma);

Eight Sumner High School girls dressed in matching dresses with broad white collars posed surrounded by Puyallup valley daffodils in April of 1936. The girls are identified as Mary Thompson, foreground, Betty Tompkins (left), Betty Leslie (right) and in the background Calista Fawcett, Marjorie Seter, Jean Elliott, Connie Crest and Mildred McGuire. The photograph was taken to promote the 3rd Annual Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival. The daffodil parade was held on Saturday April 18. (T. Times 4/16/1936, pg. 1)

Daffodils--Puyallup; Meadows--Puyallup; Girls--Puyallup--1930-1940; Croplands;

Japanese P.T. A. women at McCarver Intermediate School. The five women each wear kimonos and traditional footware. The ladies were playing hostess at the annual tea sponsored by the Japanese members of the organization. Typical Japanese delicacies were served at the tea including crisp rice cakes, flat cookies, rice candy and "semby," folded cakes with a printed fortune card enclosed. (T. Times 4/15/1936, pg. 11)

Japanese Americans--Tacoma; Parent-Teacher Association (Tacoma);McCarver Junior High School (Tacoma); Kimonos;

College of Puget Sound Adelphian Choral Society leaving on trip. Seven women and one man inside and in front of bus. (T. Times)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Choirs (Music); Students--Tacoma--1930-1940; Adelphian Choral Society (Tacoma);

The ordination ceremony for Mrs. Sunya Pratt was held on Thursday April 23, 1936, at the Tacoma Buddhist Temple, 1717 Fawcett Ave. Mrs. Pratt was the first non-Asian woman ordained as a Buddhist minister in the United States. Born in England, the daughter of a philosopher and writer, she began studying Buddhism in 1934 under Rev. Robert S. Clifton in Tacoma. (T Times 4/22/1936 p.1) TPL-6623

Pratt, Sunya; Clergy--Tacoma--1930-1940; Buddhism--Tacoma; Priests--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Portrait of Captain Matt Peasley of Grays Harbor. Peasley was the hero of the popular Peter B. Kynes' books. (T. Times).

Three men stand with a moving picture camera in a daffodil field in 1936, ready to capture the Northwest's yellow splendor of spring. The Puyallup Valley was becoming famous for its acres of yellow blossoms.

Photographers--Tacoma; Cameras; Daffodils--Tacoma; Horticulture--Tacoma; Farming--Tacoma; Farms--Tacoma;

John Joseph Kelly (kneeling front), age 11, posed with his model airplane, the Moncoop No. 110, on April 4, 1936 before its maiden voyage off the top of the garage. Pictured around the young model builder are his fans, left to right, his brother Robert Emmett Kelly, age 4; Stanley Everett Johnson, age 9; and the five year old Brown twins, Richard and Willard. The plane flew only a few moments before crashing into the concrete sidewalk. John took his battered plane and headed back to the drawing board. (filed with Argentum) (Bremerton Sun 5/16/1936, pg. 1)

Model airplanes; Boys--Bremerton--1930-1940; Kelly, John Joseph; Kelly, Robert Emmett; Johnson, Stanley Everett; Brown, Richard; Brown, Willard;

Two heads are better than one in the kitchen attest twins Josephine, front, and Hugona Kahn. The seventeen year old Juniors at Bremerton High School plan to be dietitians. They were featured on the front page of the April 9, 1936 Bremerton Sun in the kitchen of their home, studying a tome on diet. (Bremerton Sun 4/9/1936, pg. 1).

Twins--Bremerton; Aprons; Stoves--1930-1940; Kahn, Josephine; Kahn, Hugona;

Rose Berns, posing on April 4, 1936 with her rifle, was labeled in the Richards records as the "crack shot of all universities." She posed with her many trophies and medals for marksmanship, including the most recent for the University of Washington varsity rifle team's highest individual score throughout the season. For the past two years she has been a member of that team. Miss Berns began shooting at the tender age of nine, following in her father's footsteps. At the time of this photograph, she was training as a nurse at Swedish Hospital. (Bremerton Sun 4/16/1936, pg. 1)

Sharpshooting; Awards; Medals; Berns, Rose;

Young Bobby Levin made it to the front page of the Bremerton Sun on April 24, 1937 as the city prepared for the opening day of baseball season at their new park. Young master Levin, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Levin, was all set for the season opener with his full sized bat and oversized glove. The city would be inaugurating their new $45,000 athletic park at the foot of Warren Ave. on the 25th with a game between the Bremerton Cruisers and the Bellingham Boosters. (Bremerton Sun 04-24-1937, pg. 1).

Baseball--Bremerton--1930-1940; Levin, Bob;

Army Day at Fort Lewis. Heads snap "Eyes right," as the 6th Engineers detachment parades by the reviewing officers. Review group stand and Officer's Quarters in background. (T. Times 4/6 & 4/7/1936, pg. 1)

Fort Lewis (Wash.); Soldiers;

In April of 1936, three model airplane builders from the Lincoln High School Aviation Club each won a free ride in one of the airplanes housed at the Mueller-Harkins Airport. Donald C. Emmons (far left), a flight instructor, looks at the model held by Earl Witt. The others in this photograph are (l to r) Charles Hollinger, James Pattin and Bob Wilson, the president of the aviation club. Mueller-Harkins Airport was located at 4400 Steilacoom Blvd. S.W. in Lakewood at what is now Clover Park Vocational Center. (T. Times 4/6/1938, pg. 14)

Mueller-Harkins Airport (Lakewood); Airplanes; Model airplanes; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940; Emmons, Donald; Witt, Earl; Hollinger, Charles; Pattin, James; Wilson, Bob;

Army Day at Fort Lewis. 9th Field Artillery Battalion stepping off to the parade grounds for the review of troops. Soldiers in parade formation in front of 3-story, brick building. (T. Times 4/6 & 4/7/1936, pg. 1)

Fort Lewis (Wash.); Soldiers;

Army Day at Fort Lewis, April 6, 1936. 30,000 visitors were expected to take advantage of this annual opportunity to view Ft. Lewis peacetime activities. Included in the festivities was a review of the troops. Soldiers assembling for parade. Groups are gathering on street lined with young trees and 3-story, brick buildings. Wooden buildings are in the background. (T. Times 4/6/1936 & 4/7/1936, pg 1)

Fort Lewis (Wash.); Soldiers;