Group picture at the Annie Wright Seminary Junior Prom, held Saturday April 17th 1937 at the school. Several couples photographed seated on stairs. They are eating dessert and socializing.

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Annie Wright Seminary Field Day. The annual Field Day took place in May of 1936. Students are pictured engaging in a softball game with one girl at bat. The Tudor-styled school building is in the background.

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Annie Wright Seminary Field Day. Tennis courts, view from hill of game in progress. Neighborhood homes visible in background. Each year, generally in May, the student body of Annie Wright Seminary participated in a day full of activities including sports, music and the crowning of a queen and her court.

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1936 Annie Wright Seminary Field Day. Girl performing somersault off diving board into indoor swimming pool. Other girls watch.

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The Annie Wright Seminary Junior Prom, held Saturday April 17, 1937 in the Great Hall at the school. The dance had a Dutch theme and was scheduled to honor the senior class before their graduation in June. Three couples were photographed wearing formal attire and standing in front of a fireplace. The room was embellished with elaborate decorations. Pictured left to right are Robert Cowden, Barbara Bogan, Betty June Howe, Clinton Campbell, Elizabeth Post and Gordon Ketring. (T.Times 4/24/1937, pg. 9)

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Annie Wright Seminary Field Day. Archery, girl shooting bow and arrow.

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Annie Wright Seminary Field Day. Archery, girls shooting at target. School building in background.

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Annie Wright Seminary Field Day. Field hockey game in progress, run on at goal post.

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Annie Wright Seminary Field Day. Woman standing in loggia observing little girls in short dresses playing on slide and balance bar.

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Annie Wright Seminary Field Day. Field hockey game in progress. Commencement Bay and Browns Point in background.

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Annie Wright Seminary Field Day. Volleyball team in action on basketball court of gymnasium.

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Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities. Seven young women wearing costumes are performing a skit or dance. The scene is dramatized by the photographer's shadowy frame of spectators and trees in the foreground and landscape in the background.

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Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities. Girls in dark hooded costumes dancing in circle around witch. Large crowd and school building dominate the background.

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Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities. Parents and friends gathering for May day performance. Rows of wooden folding chairs have been placed on the lawn by the school building.

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Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities. Pages and queen procession walking through divided line of students. Photographer, wearing a beret, is positioning a large format box camera. Spectators and building in background.

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Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities. A large group of girls dancing in pairs in a circle. The Maypole, school grounds, spectators, and neighborhood houses are in the background. Witch hat visible behind performers' screen of shrubbery.

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Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities. Procession of young women, wearing long, formal dresses and carrying floral bouquets, walking between divided lines of students.

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Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities. Girls in costume dancing around the May Pole. School grounds, spectators and neighborhood houses visible in background. In lower left is a shrubbery screen that conceals performers.

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Annie Wright Seminary Christmas Doll Bazaar. Group of young women with dolls arranged in a village scene. The girls are all wearing the same uniform-type dress. The doll bazaar was an annual event at the school, with proceeds going to benefit the Bishop Huston Missionary Society. The bazaar opened with a doll buggy parade by the school's littlest girls. The event on December 4, 1937 drew 400 parents and friends of students. (T. Times, Society, 12/11/1937, p. 7)

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The traditional Annie Wright Seminary Christmas Doll Bazaar, held December 4, 1937. Cowboy dolls and stuffed animals arranged in a "dude ranch" theme. Students, left to right: Catherine Cowell from Missoula, Barbara Gene Hufford, Jane Duell of Chehalis, Nancy Longstreth, Muriel Spofforth. (T.Times, 12/11/37, p.7)

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Annie Wright Seminary Christmas Doll Bazaar. The traditional event was held December 4, 1937. Each class of students was responsible for arranging their dolls in their own unique manner. Here three young women arrange dolls displayed in a circus tent; "under the big top." In addition to the doll display, there was a candy sale and puppet show. (T.Times Society, 12/11/1937, p. 7)

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Annie Wright Seminary Christmas Doll Bazaar. Two older women examine the "dolls of all nations" displayed on a table in the school library. Over 400 parents and guests of the students attended the Bazaar on December 4, 1937. All proceeds went to the Bishop Huston Missionary Society. (T.Times Society. 12/11/1937, p. 7)

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Annie Wright Seminary Christmas Doll Bazaar held December 4, 1937. The Senior girls have arranged baby dolls in an old shoe; the theme is based on the nursery rhyme "Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe." Standing L to r: Margaret McGinnis, Shirley Robbins, Frances Young; kneeling, Ann Murray and Martha Turner. The seniors received an award of merit for their dolls and exhibit. (T. Times, 12/11/37, p.7)

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Annie Wright Seminary Christmas Doll Bazaar held December 4, 1937. The Senior girls have arranged baby dolls in an old shoe; the theme is based on the nursery rhyme "Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe." Standing L to r: Margaret McGinnis, Shirley Robbins, Frances Young; kneeling, Ann Murray and Martha Turner. The seniors received an award of merit for their dolls and exhibit. Left corner torn on photograph. (T. Times, 12/11/37, p.7)

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Annie Wright Seminary's 1936 May Day celebration. Crown bearers and young flower girls in costume.

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Annie Wright Seminary annual May Day activities. Procession, little girls in long gowns lead May Queen Burdette Craig and her Court between rows of little girls in short dresses. Neighborhood houses in background. (T. Times 5/18/1936, pg. 1)

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Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities. Six young girls dressed in butterfly or bee costumes dancing around a young girl seated on the ground. Spectators watching event from loggia.

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Annie Wright Seminary May Day. Procession, seen through trees with school building in the background.

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Annie Wright Seminary Field Day. Little girls in short dresses going down play yard slide and walking on balance bar. "Speed King" wagon next to slide.

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Annie Wright Seminary 1936 May Day activities. Queen Burdette Craig and her court on school steps. Photographer adjusting movie camera on tripod. (T. Times 5/18/1936, pg. 1)

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