Undated photograph of what appears to be a lacquered wood sculpture of a female oriental head by Allan Clark. Allan Clark was one of the most famous artists to be produced by the Northwest. Although he also was known as a painter, architect and a teacher, he is best remembered as a sculptor. His figures reflected his world travels, especially in the Orient where he studied from 1924-27, and his studies of Native Americans, observed during his 20 years as a resident of Santa Fe, NM. He was born in 1896 in Montana, but grew up in Tacoma, attending Stadium High School and Puget Sound College. He was killed in a car accident in 1950, at the age of 53, while driving from his New Mexico home to Tacoma to visit his ailing father. CLARK-004

Clark, Allan, 1896-1950--Associated objects; Sculpture--Tacoma;

Undated portrait of sculptor Allan Clark surrounded by several of his works. Although born in Missoula Mt. in 1896, Mr. Clark was raised in Tacoma from a young age and attended Stadium High School and Puget Sound College. His parents Harry and Bessie Clark continued to reside in Tacoma after Mr. Clark left to study and travel the world. Many of his works were influenced by his extensive travels through the Orient. He was killed in an auto accident in 1950, travelling from his home in Santa Fe, NM, to visit his ailing father in Tacoma. Allan Clark was one of the most acclaimed artists ever produced by the Northwest. CLARK-005

Clark, Allan, 1896-1950; Sculpture--Tacoma; Sculptors--Tacoma; Artists--Tacoma;

Undated photograph of a sculpture of a seated Oriental woman by Allan Clark. Born in Montana, Allan Clark travelled to Tacoma with his family and was raised here. He achieved fame as a sculptor at a young age. His art showed the influence of his years of travel and study in the Orient (1924-27) with his wife. He later settled in Santa Fe, NM, and produced figures modeled on Native Americans. He died in 1950 at the age of 53. CLARK-007

Clark, Allan, 1896-1950--Associated objects; Sculpture--Tacoma;

Unidentified man in a race car named "City of Tacoma," #33. Behind the car is another unidentified man and a gigantic bull.

City of Tacoma (Race car); Racing automobiles; Automobile racing--Tacoma;

The Foss #12 caught in the act of fighting a waterfront fire. In 1914, the #12 was the first vessel designed and built for Foss exclusively for towing. The 43 foot #12 was used primarily as a steamer assist; it helped the large vessels turn about in the narrow City Waterway by tying up to their bow and pulling them to face the other way. The #12 achieved fame, however, as the City of Tacoma's fireboat. The city entered into an agreement to hire the vessel for $8.20 a day to be on call to fight fires. The ship was fitted with a pump that could throw 1200 - 1300 gallons of water per minute at a waterfront blaze. In 1929 Tacoma had a full-fledged fireboat built, the Fireboat #1; but for a number of years Foss #12 faithfully provided that service for the city. (Photograph courtesy of the William T. Case Collection) ("Foss: A Living Legend" by Bruce Johnson and Mike Skalley)

Foss Launch & Tug Co. (Tacoma); Fireboats;

Early Logging in Mineral. Murray Logging and Timber Co.

Logging industry--Mineral;

Tacoma was introduced to McDonald's hamburgers in 1963 when the franchised restaurant chain built its golden arches at 802 Tacoma Avenue South. When this photograph was taken, sometime after 1967, the popular fast-food chain had four outlets in Tacoma and was selling 3 million hamburgers each day nationwide.

McDonald's (Tacoma); Restaurants--Tacoma--1960-1970; Fast food restaurants--Tacoma--1960-1970;

Roller skating rink. This is the King Roller Rink, located at 2707-13 Pacific Avenue. The rink was built in 1931 by Martin H. Marker, contractor. W. Chelse Boynton was the architect. 800 pairs of skates were available for gliding on the white maple flooring.

Roller skating; King Roller Rink (Tacoma); Skating rinks--Tacoma;

Undated photograph of the Port of Tacoma. Various businesses labeled in background include: Coast Sash & Door Co., Pacific Foundry Co.; City Lumber and Walstad Machine Co. Tugs and rowboat in waterway.

Port of Tacoma (Tacoma);

A sleek Blue Line bus, operated by Peter Conlon and his brother John W. Conlon, is parked outside the 12-unit Electric Apartments, 2510 Fawcett Avenue, in the early 1930s. The Conlons owned the Sumner Tacoma Stage Co. which carried passengers between Sumner and Tacoma. A small American flag is jauntily attached to the hood perhaps in honor of a holiday. (Photograph courtesy of the Jack Conlon collection)

Buses--Tacoma--1930-1940; Buses--Sumner; Sumner Tacoma Stage Co. (Sumner); Electric Apartments (Tacoma); Apartment houses--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Undated photograph of cable car 84. The streetcar is on 11th St. between Pacific Avenue and "A" Street in downtown Tacoma. It is next to Peoples department store. (Additional information provided by a reader)

Street railroads--Tacoma; Commercial streets--Tacoma; Business districts--Tacoma; Peoples (Tacoma);

Ship name: Sooloo. Full-rigger. Built at East Boston in 1861 by John and Justin Taylor for the old Salem house of Sislbee, Pickman & Allen, who owned her until 1887. Portrait of a Port: Boston 1852-1914, by W. H. Bunting, p. 342.

Sailing ships;

Cedarbank. The four-masted steel barque 'Cedarbank', 2825 tons. 2825 tons, 326.0 x 43.0 x 24.5. Built 1892 Mackie and Thomson, Glasgow. Owners A Weir and Co. registered Glasgow, later Norwegian owners without change of name. Reported wrecked in 1917 although she remained in Lloyds for a few years after. (State Library of South Australia, B 3456, PRG 1218/3 or OH 456/1, Digital Collections, South Australiana Collection, Photographs, A. D. Edwardes Collection, https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+1373/18/76)

Sailing ships; Barques; Barks;

Barkentine Monitor Formerly a unit of the Nelson Line fleet, was sold to the Interstate Fish Reduction Co., organized by E. B. McGovern of Seattle, and converted to a fish reduction plant, one of the largest on the coast and capable of processing 40 tons of sardine, pilchard or herring per hour into fish oil and meal. Capt. W. C. Ansell was appointed master of the Monitor, which carried a complement of 40 crew members and plant workers. (Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1936, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 448.)

Sailing ships; Barques; Barks;

Unknown Bark

Sailing ships; barques; barks;

Snow & Burgess. Built as a full-rigged ship at Thomaston, Maine in 1878 by Thomas Watts. Converted to a fiveΓÇômasted schooner on the West Coast in 1904. 1655 gross tons. Burned for junk in 1922 after arriving at Port Townsand from Manila with a broken back, a year earlier. (Gibbs, Jim. Pacific Square-Riggers : Pictorial History of the Great Windships of Yesteryear. 1987. Pg. 190.)

Sailing ships; Schooneers;

A. J. Fuller. Built in 1881 in Bath, Maine, the 1849 ton, 229 foot, square rigged ship, A.J. Fuller was originally a notable Down east sky sail-yarder for the Flint & Company fleet. Purchased at the turn of the century by the California Shipping Company and subsequently by Capt- Dermot, she was engaged for several years in the Puget Sound-Australian timber trade. After the outbreak of World War I the A.J. Fuller sailed under the Northwestern Fisheries Company in the Alaskan salmon trade. On October 30, 1919 she arrived in Seattle with a full load of salmon and salt. While sitting at anchor in a dense fog, the steamship Mexico Maru entered the port on a regular trans-Pacific run and collided with the A.J. Fuller. The ten foot hole torn in the bow of the wooden ship caused her to rapidly sink. Although salvage was deemed possible the underwriters decided against it. The approximate position of the A.J. Fuller is 2000 ft offshore of Harbor Island at a depth of 240 feet. (Newell, Gordon

Sailing ships;

Vincent.

Sailing ships

Americana. Schooner built in 1892 om Grangemouth, Scotland. Vanished en route from Astoria to Sydney in 1913. (Pacific square-riggers; pictorial history of the great windships of yesteryear, by Jim Gibbs, p. 183)

Sailing ships;

Clipper Saint Paul (St. Paul). Built 1874 in Bath, ME, served briefly as a museum in the Seattle waterfront, was towed in 1942 to Oyster Bay, Vancouver Island to serve as part of a breakwater. (https://www.historylink.org/File/20184)

Sailing ships;

Abner Coburn. The 1,972-ton wooden ship Abner Coburn, built by William Rogers at Bath, Maine in 1882, was acquired from California Shipping Co. by Libby, McNeil & Libby, making annual voyages to Bristol Bay for the next 11 years. Gordon Newell, "Maritime events of 1912" H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.,p. 201-202.

Sailing ships;

Western Washington Fair. Western State Hospital produce exhibit.

Undated photograph of Mount Rainier.

Rainier, Mount (Wash.); Mountains--Washington;

Logging railroad bridge being built for Weyerhaeuser near Elma, WA. Timbers used in construction may have been cut from trees nearby as evidenced by several tree stumps. (copy negative on file; original owned by Kathleen Ramsey)

Railroad bridges--Elma; Bridges--Elma; Weyerhauser Timber Co. (Elma);