ca. 1937. Front view of two buses for Chehalis to Astoria route in front of White Motor Truck Company. (filed with Argentum)

Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; White trucks; Tacoma White Trucks, Inc. (Tacoma); Automobile dealerships--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1937. Tacoma Police Department, new patrol automobile. Three patrol wagons, a new Mack Jr.and two older, parked in front of a concrete garage with brick detailing on the cornice. Officer between first and second vehicles. For Richard Rodius, TPD driver. (filed with Argentum)

Tacoma Police Department (Tacoma); Automobiles--1930-1940;

ca. 1937. For Edwin Griffin. Exterior - loaded trucks in front of office. Three men standing next to loaded trucks in front of Griffin Fuel Company office building. Snoqualmie Falls Power Company Transfer House, 250 So. 19th St., in background. (filed with Argentum)

Griffin Fuel Co. (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuel--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuel trade--Tacoma--1930-1940; Snoqualmie Falls Power Co. Transfer House (Tacoma);

ca. 1937. A barn stands reflected in the surrounding water during the 1937 Puyallup Valley flood.

Floods--1930-1940; Disasters--1930-1940; Barns;

ca. 1937. Soldiers on horses pulling covered wagon with "Just Married" banner and carrying wedding couple. Low wooden building and Fort Lewis Chapel in background. Reviving an old artillery custom, the newly married couple is paraded on the battalion's equipment. The equipment is usually a gun carriage. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma Times. (filed with Argentum)

Fort Lewis (Wash.);

ca. 1937. Professor Mason instructing three music students. A boy with a trumpet and a girl with a violin watch another girl playing a baritone. Sheet music on stand titled "The Moore Band Course."

Music education--1930-1940; Children playing musical instruments; Brass instruments; Violins;

ca. 1937. Members of the Swiss Singing Society Edelweiss of Tacoma photographed in July of 1937 at the Swiss Hall. The group was scheduled to perform at the festival of the United States Swiss Singers of the Pacific Coast in Portland mid month. Pictured are, front row left to right, Frederick E. Gysin, Joseph Burgi, Gotleib Ribary (yodeler,) Egon Schmidt (conductor,) Werner Schmid, Charles Bishofberger, Albert Ley. 2nd Row: Rudolf Burgerber, Ernest Lehman, Rudolph Larberg, Herman Eigenman, John Meyer, Albert Bacher, Otto Kueffer. Top row: M. Zehner, Fritz Roth, Carl Svedberg (Accompanist,) Theo. Dravis, Barth Fritch, Victor Lorman, Adolph Kuenzi (T. Times 7/9/1937, p. 7). (also numbered A6043 image 1)

Swiss Hall (Tacoma); Music ensembles; Folk singers; Murals; Ethnic groups; Edelweiss Swiss Singing Society (Tacoma);

ca. 1937. Photograph of Mrs. H.R. Baker speaking on the telephone in April of 1937. In honor of National Want Ad Week, the Tacoma Times ran a full page promotion using pictures of satisfied Times Want Ad customers. (WSHS) (T.Times 4/21/1937, pg. 13)

Telephones--1930-1940; Telephone directories; Baker, H.R.--Family;

ca. 1937. Helen Matthews with telephone operator's equipment, April of 1937, in a promotional photograph for National Want Ad Week. Miss Matthews was an employee of the Tacoma Times advertising department, answering phone calls for the want ads. She was featured in a full page ad in the April 21, 1937 Tacoma Times, extolling the virtues of want ads. (WSHS) (T. Times 4/21/1937, pg. 13)

Telephones--1930-1940; Telephone operators--1930-1940; Matthews, Helen;

ca. 1937. Mrs. A.E. Cromwell (Nettie) tending flower bushes next to a wooden fence. Her husband was the Deputy County Auditor & Recorder. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma News Tribune. (filed with Argentum)

Cromwell, A.E.--Homes & haunts; Cromwell, Nettie; Gardens; Backyards--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1937. Group of eight Grand Chiefs, Improved Order of Redmen, ca. 1937. Group of men in suits, some wearing Indian headdresses. The Order of Red Men trace their origins to certain secret Patriotic Societies founded before the American Revolution. It is the nation's oldest patriotic fraternal organization of American, not European, origin. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma Times. (filed with Argentum)

Improved Order of Redmen (Tacoma);

ca. 1937. National Guard Dinner at the Union Club. Military men at head table placed in front of stone fireplace.

Union Club (Tacoma); Washington National Guard (Tacoma); Military personnel--Tacoma--1930-1940; Uniforms--Washington National Guard--1930-1940;

ca. 1937. Sales Grange baseball team in front of their sponsor's storefront, Saxton Lumber Co., 6030 South Tacoma Way. The team is believed to be from Parkland and competed in the City League Baseball group. Saxton Lumber Co. was owned by Malcolm N. Saxton. (filed with Argentum)

Baseball players--Parkland--1930-1940; Saxton Lumber Co. (Tacoma);

Atlas Foundry furnace. Interior view of foundry operations in January of 1937, showing men working with glowing molten iron or steel which is flowing from the furnace into a bucket suspended on a heavy metal pulley hook.

Altas Foundry & Machine Co. (Tacoma); Foundries--Tacoma--1930-1940; Steel industry--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Atlas Foundry furnace. Workman igniting the foundry's new furnace. Glimpse of the foundry interior as it was photographed in January of 1937.

Atlas Foundry & Machine Co. (Tacoma); Foundries--Tacoma--1930-1940; Steel industry--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Atlas Foundry furnace as photographed in January of 1937. Workmen inside foundry. Laborer pouring glowing molten iron or steel into barrel. The process appears to be the method and machinery used prior to the foundry's installation of a new furnace.

Atlas Foundry & Machine Co. (Tacoma); Foundries--Tacoma--1930-1940; Steel industry--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Loading milled lumber from the dock onto the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company's lumber ship "Lake Frances".

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Tacoma); Cargo ships--Tacoma; Shipping--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1937. This picture, taken in 1937 at the Puyallup Cooperative Hatchery shows a unidentified young girl gently holding a chick. A number of other baby chicks are in the lid of a box in front of her. Poultry were big business in Pierce County in the 1930s. In 1936 there were over 800 commercial poultry growers in the county, some with immense flocks of birds. Ordered by Joe Cornish.

Puyallup Cooperative Hatchery (Puyallup); Chickens--Puyallup; Chicken industry--Puyallup; Children & animals--Puyallup;

Red Top Taxi parked in front of Tommy Burns Used Cars. Dodge Cars and Trucks sign, "Bargain Value Used Cars" advertising banner. For Charles Cook.

Taxicabs--Tacoma; Red Top Taxi (Tacoma); Automobiles--Tacoma--1930-1940; Tommy Burns Used Cars (Tacoma); Banners;

ca. 1937. Automobile accident at 4th and M Streets circa 1937. Man on right wearing suit and cap and holding booklet. Younger man on left wearing short sleeved ribbed shirt and felt hat and holding a folded sheet of paper. It is possible that they are exchanging information.

Traffic accidents--Tacoma; Men--Clothing & dress--Tacoma;

ca. 1937. The Barlow-Catlin Block, 1109-13 Pacific Ave., circa 1937. The structure was built in 1889 from a design by Proctor and Dennis. The building was named after its developers C.S. Barlow and Charles Catlin. It was later renamed the Arcade Building and the Bankers Trust Building. In 1937, the main tenant was Steel, Steel, Steel Inc. Real Estate and the building was closed above the second floor to save money. The US government took over the building in 1943 to use as dormitory style housing for war workers. It was demolished in 1956 to make way for an annex to the Peoples Store, located left 1101-07 Pacific Ave. Located to the right of the building are the smaller building at 1115 Pacific and the National Realty Building at 1117-19 Pacific, home in 1937 to Puget Sound Bank. (filed with Argentum)

Barlow-Catlin Block (Tacoma); Office buildings--Tacoma; Business districts--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1937. Photograph ordered by Al Gehri for "Better Homes and Gardens" article on building modern homes. A workman is busy at his temporary workstation with a rotor or motor. Two men stand in the background watching. A framed in house is also in the background.

Construction--1930-1940; Building construction; Houses--1930-1940;

ca. 1937. Ordered by writer Al Gehri for a Better Homes and Gardens article on building modern homes. A worker is wheeling a wheelbarrow filled with dirt away from the foundation of an almost completed brick home.

Construction--1930-1940; Construction industry--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1937. John and Rose Dower Estate. "Dower Dell." The estate was built in 1927 for John Dower, president of the John Dower Lumber Co. View of a foot path and bridge over a creek. Gazebo type structure center. (filed with Argentum)

Dower, John--Homes & haunts; Estates--Lakewood;

ca. 1937. John and Rose Dower Estate. "Dower Dell." The estate was built in 1927 for John Dower, president of the John Dower Lumber Co. Photograph of a garden path or road through lush vegetation. (filed with Argentum)

Dower, John--Homes & haunts; Estates--Lakewood;

ca. 1937. John and Rose Dower Estate. "Dower Dell." The estate was built in 1927 for John Dower, president of the John Dower Lumber Co. Photograph of a foot bridge over a raging creek. (filed with Argentum)

Dower, John--Homes & haunts; Estates--Lakewood;

ca. 1937. John and Rose Dower Estate. "Dower Dell." The estate was built in 1927 for John Dower, president of the John Dower Lumber Co. View of a foot bridge over a creek. Gazebo type structure on right. (filed with Argentum)

Dower, John--Homes & haunts; Estates--Lakewood;

ca. 1937. Nepean C. (N.C.) Garrison poses with an old chest, perhaps used to hold his wood working tools. In 1937, Mr. Garrison resided at 6414 Pacific Ave. and listed his occupation as deckhand at Cascade Timber Co.; but his real love was building model ships. His artistic models were on display at many locations and were given as gifts to the Hollywood crowd during the filming of Tugboat Annie.

Garrison, N.C.; Chests;

ca. 1937. Model hop farm in Roy. Pictures ordered by Tacoma National Bank. The 41 acre hop farm was owned by James E. & J.W. Feak. People relaxing in front of A frame shelters. The shelters are possibly intended to house migrant workers that pick the hops. Farm also pictured in series D5210.

Hops--Roy--1930-1940; Farming--Roy--1930-1940;

George Irey's Signal service station and Tacoma Radiator and Fender Works. Service station attendant standing at three-pump gasoline service island. Building in background was later remodeled into Mueller-Harkins Buick.

Business Enterprises - Automobile Service Stations - Signal Dealers - Tacoma - George Irey's Signal Service Station