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Frank Herbert in his study
Photo by Robert W. Kelley

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Theatrical Group, Order of Vasa, ca. 1912, Tacoma
Photograph courtesy of the Vasa Lodge Norden, Tacoma

From In the Footsteps of Nicholas Delin: the Swedish Presence in Pierce County, a photography exhibition tracing the world of Swedish and Swedish-Finnish immigrants in Pierce County from 1887 - 1930, opening Thursday, December 14, 1995 at the Tacoma Public Library's Handforth Gallery (Main Library, 1102 Tacoma Avenue South in downtown Tacoma).

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Java Jive

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K.S.T.W.-TV

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Scores of men and a couple of women line up, with bags and packs, to gain admission to the Last Chance Shelter on Commerce St. The line often starts forming at 4 o'clock, with the door opening at 6:30.
Photo by Peter Haley

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Harold G. Moss

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Norwegian Independence Day
Photograph by Jerry Buck

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Oil Skimmer for Commencement Bay
Belt in Middle Scoops Up Oil and Debris

Commencement Bay received an oil skimmer rig to fight oil spills. The skimmer can hold up to 880 gallons of oil and uses the belt in the middle of the rig to pick up oil and debris. The skimmer can hold the oil for about 98 percent of the oil spills that occur in Puget Sound, and it is run by the Marine Oil Pickup Service (MOPS) of Seattle.

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Peck Field

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Lyle Quasim heads up the Tacoma-Pierce County Safe Streets Campaign.
Photo by Katherine Jones

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Lyle Swenson in his Autorest Cafe in Cle Elum

CLE ELUM--The Autorest Cafe, known to travelers for its pastry and a back bar that came 'round Cape Horn, will change ownership on Sept. 15 after being in the same family since 1918.
Many cross-state travelers have stopped at the venerable place, operated for the past 30 years by Lois and Lyle Swenson of Cle Elum. They have sold the restaurant to Ron and Donna Voight of the Tacoma area. Voight has been with Safeway.
The massive back bar of dark, Honduras mahogany is the dominant piece. Visitors who sat at the counter and saw themselves in the bar's broad mirrors wouldn't know its history unless they read the sign.
Hand-carved and built in Alabama in 1897 by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., the bar was shipped around Cape Horn to Seattle, where it embellished the old Mecca Saloon on First Avenue in 1915. The bar was moved and installed in the Autorest Cafe, Cle Elum, in 1918.

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Brian Sonntag

A child throws a frisbee while at Camp Murray. Vietnamese refugees moved to the Tacoma area in search of new jobs and with them came their families.

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New Correction Center

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Air Cushion Boat Co.
Photograph By Bob Rudsit

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Cheney Baseball Stadium
Dedication

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Demonstrations

In a black and white photo, a crowd of a half dozen demonstrators walk past a couple exiting a car. Most of the signs they are holding are obscured, but one sign reads "... Proof of the Deer Hide."

Native American protesters confront author Ruth Beebe Hill over claims her book Hanta Yo is filled with misinformation about Indigenous history, specifically Hill’s saga about two Sioux families.

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Listening to a story

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Tacoma Freeway - Interstate Route No. 5 (PSH No. 1) - Pacific Avenue Interchange.
Construction of grades, drainage system and structures at the Pacific Avenue Interchange of the Tacoma Freeway. View is from the north of the right of way, vicinity of the intersection of East 30th Street and East "A" Street, looking south across the area of the proposed interchange. The East 34th Street Bridge over the C.M. & St. P. & P. RR shows in the background.
Photo by Jerry Gray

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Meridian and 224th The Last of the "Old Graham" Business District...
Bruce Larson

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Frank Herbert
Robert W. Kelley Photo

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"August Anderson clearing land." C1910, Lakebay, Washington
Courtesy of Mr. & Mrs. Gustaf Loustrom, Tacoma, WA

From In the Footsteps of Nicholas Delin: the Swedish Presence in Pierce County, a photography exhibition tracing the world of Swedish and Swedish-Finnish immigrants in Pierce County from 1887 - 1930, opening Thursday, December 14, 1995 at the Tacoma Public Library's Handforth Gallery (Main Library, 1102 Tacoma Avenue South in downtown Tacoma).

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Maestro Bobby Floyd at the Piano & Organ
Radonich

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New Home

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Bill Garst of Tacoma reads on his bunk in the Last Chance Shelter. He lost his job and is looking for another one. He doesn't get unemployment (reason unknown) and because he couldn't make house payments foreclosure forced him out onto the street.
Photo by Peter Haley

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Harold G. Moss

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Norwegian Independence Day

40 Mallard ducks used to paddle Fife’s Wapato Creek had to paddle in a kitchen sink instead. Volunteer Chris Wells scrubbed one of the ducks affected by the oil spill in the creek. All ducks were expected to recover. The spill was blamed on vandals who were believed to have tampered with the storage tanks at the Old Valley Packing Co. recently purchased by the Milwaukee Railroad. Photo by staff member Bruce Kellman.

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Duck
Photograph by Jerry Buck