Sea-Tac Shipyard Swing Shift bowlers. [Also dated 03-27-1943]

Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma)--People; Bowlers--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Long view of the exterior of Pacific Iron and Steel Works at 1602 Canal St. (now Portland Ave.) The company manufactured heavy machinery for logging, hoisting and dredging. The foundry was built in 1914.

Pacific Iron & Steel Works (Tacoma); Foundries--Tacoma--1940-1950; Steel industry--Tacoma-- 1940-1950;

Pacific Iron & Steel Works, 1602 Canal St. (now Portland Ave.) An employee looks diminutive beside what may be a huge mold for steel castings.The foundry, built in 1914, also manufactured large machinery for logging and hoisting.

Pacific Iron & Steel Works (Tacoma); Foundries--Tacoma--1940-1950; Steel industry--Tacoma-- 1940-1950;

Pacific Iron & Steel Works, 1602 Canal St. (now Portland Ave.) An employee turns a wheel operating a large piece of machinery in the foundry.

Pacific Iron & Steel Works (Tacoma); Foundries--Tacoma--1940-1950; Steel industry--Tacoma-- 1940-1950;

Foundry operations - Pacific Iron & Steel Works. Pacific Iron & Steel was housed in a two-story wood & sheet metal structure at 1602 Canal St. (now Portland Ave.) The company, founded in 1914, manufactured logging and hoisting machinery, steel castings and dredging machinery. A worker is pictured here on January 10, 1943, turning the wheel which operates the large machine before him.

Pacific Iron & Steel Works (Tacoma); Foundries--Tacoma--1940-1950; Steel industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Students working as farm laborers in Puyallup. Three young women take time out for lunch. They are sitting on the tail gate of a canvas covered truck parked among the crops, with open metal lunch pails on their laps.

Agricultural laborers; World War, 1939-1945--Students--Tacoma; Croplands--Puyallup Valley;

Precision Machine Works is more than just a machine shop, it is a factory for designing and inventing automatic machinery. Precision Machine Works is a valuable plant helping the Northwest progress in the industrial markets. Edward Gazecki and Edwin Hofstead founded this plant in 1924. Exterior view of plant.

Industrial facilities--Tacoma; Machine shops--Tacoma; Precision Machine Works (Tacoma);

Tacoma Boat launched a Pacific Coast-type purse seiner. The "F. D. Roosevelt" was built under the UNRRA contract for Yugoslavia. It is a modern boat completely refrigerated, powered by a 360 horse power engine, with diesel generators, 85 feet long, 22 foot beam and a 10,000 mile range. Miss Margaret Marinkovich (second from right) was the launching sponsor, Marcus Nalley, second from left. (T. Times, 7/1/46, p. 3).

Launchings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Fishing boats--Tacoma; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Boat Building Co., Inc. (Tacoma); Marinkovich, Margaret;

A. H. Cox & Co. at St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. logging operation at Puyallup. Earlier this year St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber stated they would be planting 800,000 trees, the same amount as last year. High school boys would be hired to help plant the trees, they would earn $6 per day. View of Ollis-Chalmers machine.

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Loggers; Machinery; Woodcutting--Puyallup; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Tacoma);

A. H. Cox & Co. at St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. logging operation at Puyallup. St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. was founded in 1888 when Washington was still a territory, by Colonel Chauncey W. Griggs. Their timber is primarily douglas fir, red cedar and western hemlock. View of high line yarder, with logs ready to be loaded onto cars.

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Logs; Woodcutting--Puyallup; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Tacoma);

To corroborate laboratory proof of the strength and durability of glue-lines of exterior plywood, samples such as these are subjected to long-time exposure and tested at intervals. View of two unidentified men testing plywood at Parkland, photo ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Plywood; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Testing--Tacoma; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma);

A. H. Cox & Co. at St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. logging operation at Puyallup. St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber also has a plant in Olympia, plywood is manufactured in that plant, then sent to the Tacoma retail yard. View of logging camp grounds where laborers sleeping quarters are located, mountain view in background.

Railroad tracks--Puyallup; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Tacoma); Rainier, Mount (Wash.);

Washington Steel & Welding Company. A boat is sitting in the ways building surrounded by scaffolding. Wooden walkways take the workmen to all levels of the boat. Washington Steel & Welding advertised they could provide portable welding and steel fabricating using acetylene and electric welding of all kinds. Both Tacoma Boat Building and Pacific Boat had hulls fabricated by Washington Steel and Welding. The ship's sections, up to 30,000 pounds, were fabricated in the shop, and then brought to the ways for assembling and welding. It took approximately 250 tons of steel for each 112 foot hull. (T.Times, 8/30/1946, p.6) TPL-8909

Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Washington Steel & Welding Co. (Tacoma); Steel industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

An aerial view of Philadelphia Quartz' plant on the Tacoma tideflats. Philadelphia Quartz was one of the leading producers of soluble silicates. The company had plants in Berkeley, Los Angeles and Tacoma. The silicates were components of the adhesives used in plywood production and corrugated paper board for the container industry. They were used in city and industrial waterways to clarify raw and waste water and stop rusting.

Chemical industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Minerals; Philadelphia Quartz Co. of California (Tacoma); Aerial photographs;

Nalley's Inc. Pickle barrels. Rows of wide barrels stand in an open factory. Barrels in the foreground are full of pickles while those in the background are empty. Foam on top of the pickles and brine follow the gridlines of the nets protecting the pickles. Open beams are overhead and windows line the far wall.

Food industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Nalley's, Inc. (Tacoma);

Marcus Nalley, founder of Nalley's Inc., and L. Evert Landon, long-time employee, expanded their product line with the L & N Pickle Company. In 1941, a pickle factory was the first of many buildings built on the company's newly acquired l0-acre site in the Center Street District, now Nalley Valley. Women on the pickle assembly line pack cucumbers into glass jars for processing, capping and labeling as Nalley's "Treasure Pickles".

Food industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Nalley's, Inc. (Tacoma); Assembly-line methods--Tacoma; Pickles; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Bottles;

In this photograph taken for Nalley's Inc. in 1946, an unidentified employee uses a dip net to transfer pickles from a large wooden vat to a wooden crate. The forklift in the background will be used to move the crate of pickles to the canning line where they will be put in glass jars. For over 60 years, Nalley's produced pickles at their plant in Nalley Valley. In 2002 Dean Foods, the company that purchased Nalley's pickle operation, shut down the pickle plant in Tacoma.

Food industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Nalley's, Inc. (Tacoma); Hoisting machinery;

Industrial Avd. Sealer treatment machine. A man works with a conveyor belt moving doors coming from the sealer machine, stacking them for delivery to another location in the plant.

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Conveying systems--Tacoma--1940-1950; Machinery; Doors & doorways--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Industrial Avd. Sealer treatment machine. A worker loads doors into the sealer treatment machine. He loads them in at an angle and the machinery holds them vertically. A conveyor system moves the doors into the chamber where the sealer is sprayed onto the doors.

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Conveying systems--Tacoma--1940-1950; Machinery; Doors & doorways--Tacoma--1940-1950;

St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company. Several railroad cars loaded with logs are standing in the yard at the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company. The waterway can be seen at the right. The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company was founded by Col. Chauncey W. Griggs in 1889. He had been working in Minnesota with coal and railroad concerns when he came to the Northwest. He was interested in starting a lumber producing operation so he purchased 80,000 acres in 1887 and another 20 acres on the tideflats one year later.

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Tacoma);

ca. 1943. Built in 1924, the Henry Mill & Timber Company occupied the site on Ruston Way just south of North Starr St. for almost 20 years. Originally a sawmill, they started fabricating structures when they built the caisson panels for the first Narrows Bridge. Their expertise in designing and building prefabricated structures from heavy timber won them contracts during WWII for giant store houses and hangers that could be broken down into small sections, shipped, and re-assembled with a minimum of effort. After the war they were taken over by the Tacoma Lumber Fabricating Co. which closed in the early 1950s.

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Lumberyards--Tacoma; Prefabricated buildings--Tacoma; Henry Mill & Timber Co. (Tacoma);

Henry Mill showing salt treatment of wood. Henry Mill & Timber Co. was very busy with the construction industry throughout Tacoma. They were leaders in prefabricated materials which were needed for the development of housing and businesses in Pierce County. View of unidentified laborer directing the hoisting of lumber during salt treatment of wood.

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Laborers--Tacoma; Hoisting machinery; Henry Mill & Timber Co. (Tacoma);

The 61.9-foot fishing trawler, the "Hustler, " was successfully launched by Western Boat in June of 1945. As the poem written in her honor states, she has just slid down the ways. The Tacoma city skyline can be seen in the background. The ship's owner was R. Tom Muchlinski and she carried a crew of six. After completion, the "Hustler" was bound for Ketchikan, Alaska. Shortly after being placed in service, she was taken over by the U.S. government.

Launchings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Fishing boats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Western Boat Building Co. (Tacoma);

This unidentified woman is prepared to christen a new 72-foot Army tug on March 5, 1944. The ship was built by Pacific Boat Building Co. of Tacoma.

Launchings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tugboats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Pacific Boat Building Co. (Tacoma);

Sea Boy launching. Puget Sound Boatbuilding Corp. launched the 85- ft. sardine boat, "Sea Boy," into the City Waterway on July 1, 1944. Many gathered to view the impressive sight. View of three unidentified individuals, including an infant, who were present at launching of "Sea Boy." (T. Times, 7/1/44, p. 4)

Launchings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Fishing boats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Puget Sound Boat Building Corp. (Tacoma); Infants--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Wheeler Osgood Plywood plant, Mr. McCallum. The Wheeler Osgood Plywood Co. began in 1889 as door manufacturers. In 1910 they became one of the first plywood manufacturers in Tacoma. They are one of the largest douglas fir plywood producers in the Northwest. View of Mr. Winston H. McCallum, Douglas Fir Plywood Association at the Wheeler Osgood plywood plant in front of a large cut log.

Plywood; Wheeler, Osgood Co. (Tacoma); Logs; McCallum, Winston H.;

Wheeler Osgood Plywood plant, Mr. McCallum. In 1939 Wheeler Osgood celebrated their 50th anniversary by sending the 27th millionth door they built as part of the Washington State exhibit at the New York World's Fair. View of laborers at the Wheeler Oswood plywood plant. Photo ordered by Mr. Winston H. McCallum of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Plywood; Wheeler, Osgood Co. (Tacoma); Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Logs;

Tacoma Boat Facilities. Tacoma Boatbuilding Co. was started in 1936 by H. Dahl and A. Strom. The partners wanted to build fishing vessels for North Pacific Fishermen. In 1941 they signed a contract to build government boats and moved to a larger, newly expanded plant at the head of the City Waterway. Interior view of workshop and laborer. TPL-6645

Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Boat Building Co., Inc. (Tacoma);

Henry Mill miscellaneous shots. The Henry Mill & Timber Company was one of the first lumber companies to prepare for the demand of pre-fabricated lumber products. They later became a pre-fabrication company rather than a lumber mill company. Interior view of construction using Henry Mill & Timber Co. pre-fabricated products.

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Building construction--Tacoma; Henry Mill & Timber Co. (Tacoma);

Pictures of assembly line at Nelson Boiler for Pacific Iron & Steel. Nelson Boiler Co. strengthened the company by consolidating with the iron and steel industry. They relocated into expanded facilities in order to fill Navy orders for steel barges. The new facilities enabled the company to keep Navy barges covered during building process. Interior view of covered plant.

Steel industry--Tacoma; Defense industry--Tacoma; World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--Tacoma; Nelson Boiler Co. (Tacoma);