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.

Private schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Events--Tacoma; Softball--Tacoma--1930-1940; Softball players--Tacoma--1930-1940; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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.

Private schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940; Tennis courts--Tacoma; Tennis--Tacoma;

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

Private Schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Events--Tacoma--1930-1940; Archery--Tacoma--1930-1940; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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

Private schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Events--Tacoma; Field hockey--Tacoma; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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

Private schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Events--Tacoma; School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Children playing outdoors--Tacoma--1930-1940; Playgrounds--Tacoma; School recesses--Tacoma;

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

Private schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Events--Tacoma; Volleyball--Tacoma; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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.

Private Schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Holidays--Tacoma; May Day--Tacoma;

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.

Private Schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Holidays--Tacoma; May Day--Tacoma; May poles--Tacoma;

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.

Private Schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Holidays--Tacoma; May Day--Tacoma; May poles--Tacoma;

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)

Private Schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Holidays--Tacoma; Bazaars--Tacoma; Dolls; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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)

Private Schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Holidays--Tacoma; Bazaars--Tacoma; Dolls; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940; Murray, Ann; Robbins, Shirley; Young, Frances; McGinnis, Margaret; Turner, Martha;

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

Private schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; May Day--Tacoma; Girls--Tacoma--1930-1940; School children--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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.

Private Schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; May Day--Tacoma; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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.

Private schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Children playing outdoors--Tacoma--1930-1940; Playgrounds--Tacoma; School recesses--Tacoma;

Annie Wright Seminary Field Day. Six young girls in short dresses standing on a slide.

Private schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Children playing outdoors--Tacoma--1930-1940; Playgrounds--Tacoma; School recesses--Tacoma;

Group of girls from Annie Wright Seminary during a ski trip to Paradise, Mount Rainier Park. L to R; P.E. teacher Mary Wells Leiter, Caroline Stone, Given McKie, Lois Jannsen, Helen Stone. (T. Times 1/30/1937)

Private schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Skiing; Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.); Students--Tacoma--1930-1940; Leiter, Mary Wells; Stone, Caroline; McKie, Given; Jannsen, Lois; Stone, Helen;

Pet show at Fircrest School held in March of 1937 in connection with "Be kind to animals week." Marilyn White holds her pet dog and Douglas Shacklett poses with his pet rabbit. Behind the pair are fish bowls and cages filed with birds, chickens, and ducks. (T. Times 3/20/1937, pg. 11)

Public schools--Fircrest--1930-1940; Wainwright Elementary (Fircrest); Pets; Children & animals--Fircrest--1930-1940; Animal shows--Fircrest--1930-1940;

College of Puget Sound vs. University of British Columbia football game at Stadium Bowl. Players on field, Commencement Bay in background.

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No you're not seeing double; in February of 1936, Naval Avenue School in Bremerton boasted of 8 sets of twins, more twins than any other institution in the city of comparable size. Four sets of twins were enrolled in the first grade. Pictured, left to right with one sitting and other standing, are Tillie and Clifford Williams, Phillip and Phyllis Thornton, Adrian and Allen Mathews, Dorothy and Donna Misz, Teddy and Richard Holland, Dorothy and Donald Davis, Norene and Arlene Crites and Hollis and Wallace Erwin. For Bremerton Sun. (filed with Argentum) (Bremerton Sun 2/20/1936, pg. 1)

School children--Bremerton--1930-1940; Classrooms--Bremerton--1930-1940; Twins; Naval Avenue School (Bremerton);

ca. 1934. Staff of the 1934 "Tamanawas," group portrait in front of Jones Hall, College of Puget Sound. Front row: Dorothy Foxwell, Phyllis Swanson, Gertrude Davis, Annabel Biggle, Eunice Perkins, Maurine Henderson and Harriet Rosenzweig. Back row: Howard Clifford, Carl Faulk, Jack Slatter, Fred Stockbridge, Richard Poole, Woodard. Not pictured are editor Delmore Martin and Business Manager Richard Zehnder. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--Group portraits--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Tacoma;

ca. 1934. Campus Day 1934 at the College of Puget Sound. Campus Day is the time set aside for the annual general spring campus cleanup. Pictured are a group of student workers enjoying the free lunch served by the Spurs in Howarth Hall after the annual frosh-soph tug-of-war contest. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Tacoma;

ca. 1934. Girls freshman baseball nine won the annual baseball tournament in 1934, defeating the sophomores 18 to 9. Front row: Perkins, Davis, Ida Larson (captain), Hagberg. Back row: Fulton, Giske, Beerbohm, Hanson, Ramsby. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Baseball players--Tacoma--1930-1940;

The boys of Saint Patrick's beat Visitation, Holy Rosary, Sacred Heart, and Saint Leo's to win the Parochial Basketball League title in 1936. Only the last names of the players on St. Patrick's team were listed in the Tacoma Times when this photograph was published on March 13, 1936. They were: (l to r, standing) Burkehouse, Kroha, Haaker, King (the manager) and Giannelli; (l to r, seated) Weaver, Wonder, Realey and DesMaris.

Church schools--Tacoma; St. Patrick's Parochial School (Tacoma); Basketball players--Tacoma--1930-1940; School children--1930-1940;

College of Puget Sound Summer Class, July 1935. Portland Area School of Ministerial Training. (WSHS)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. College of Puget Sound Choral Society leaving on bus tour of the state. Large group of boys and girls in and beside Washington Motor Coach System double-decker bus. (filed with Argentum)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Choirs (Music); Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Stanley School 6A Class in June of 1937. The students pose in front of the original school, which opened in 1925.

School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Group portraits; Stanley Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; Education--Tacoma;

Cast of Robert Gray Junior High play. Six girls and four boys in period costume on school steps; photograph was taken in June, 1937. The girl on the farthest left, rear, has been tentatively identified as Leah Kelley.

Gray Junior High School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; Theatrical productions--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Cast of play at McCarver Junior High. Many students in nautical or ethnic costume, including several Japanese-American girls in kiminos, are serenaded by a string quartet. Teachers look on.

Public schools--Tacoma; McCarver Junior High School (Tacoma); Theatrical productions--1930-1940; Costumes;

Diverse group of schoolchildren posing next to buses in front of the First Assembly of God Church.

The new residence hall for women at the College of Puget Sound, circa March of 1939. The brick structure was erected in 1938, the school's fiftieth anniversary year. It was opened during the second semester January 30, 1939 and dedicated February 15, 1939. On the ground floor were a service room and large activity room, the main floor contained the lounge, office, dining room and kitchen, and the second and third floors were sleeping rooms for 40 students. The cost of the structure was $72,000. For Dick Smith, C.P.S. (filed with Argentum) (photo used in CPS ad in T. Times 2/8/1939, pg. 32; article same page)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--Buildings;