ca. 1934. Past Grand Matrons, most likely of the Order of the Eastern Star. Group of seven women standing in beautifully landscaped front yard of home. Mrs. Drury. (T. Tribune) (WSHS)

Order of Eastern Star (Tacoma); Fraternal organizations--Tacoma--1930-1940; Clubwomen--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Committee for Masonic Convention. Group of four men and six women standing on steps of building. (T.N.T.) (WSHS)

Fraternal organizations--Tacoma--1930-1940; Free & Accepted Masons (Tacoma);

Two massive explosions at the Denn Powder Co. dynamite plant eight miles northeast of Olympia, on June 27, 1934, killed ten people outright and injured six. Packing room employee O.R. Mitchell displays a damaged time clock with its hands stopped at 3:55, the time of the blasts. Night shift employees normally began work at 4 pm; on June 27th, however, they had started work an hour earlier. Mr. Mitchell was among those scheduled to leave at 4pm but instead left at 3. He was at home when he heard a tremendous explosion and saw a peculiar gray cloud. Rushing back to the plant, he saw many bodies. The loss of life may have been lessened because both crews were not at work at the same time. Many of the deaths and injuries may have occurred when workers, attempting to put out fires caused by the first explosion, were then caught in the second blast. (T. Times, 6-28-34, p. 1, 9)

Disasters--Hawks Prairie; Explosions--Hawks Prairie; H. J. Denn Powder Co. (Hawks Prairie); Mitchell, O.R.; Time clocks--Hawks Prairie;

Denn Powder Co. explosion, Hawks Prairie, June 27, 1934. Employees of the H. J. Denn Powder Co. are shown examining the wreckage of the mixing room in the aftermath of the explosions and fire that took the lives of at least ten employees on June 27, 1934. The plant's dynamite storage building is in the background. The 3:55 pm blasts sent shock waves around a four-mile radius. (T.Times, 6-28-34, p. 1) (filed with Argentum)

Disasters--Hawks Prairie; Explosions--Hawks Prairie; H. J. Denn Powder Co. (Hawks Prairie);

Blue Star, under construction, Mantra Marine, wider view of shop, Ed Beck's company, Seattle, stern view. Vessel was low-draft gillnetter built specifically for the Kodiak & Alaska fisheries. Ed Beck fished one of his boats around Kodiak in the summer.

ca. 1934. Floral decorations in an unidentified church. Numerous baskets of flowers arranged around altar with bouquets attached to pews along center isle. Large pipe organ and cross behind altar. Crossed American flags at each side of pipe organ. (T.N.T.)

Flower arrangements; Churches--1930-1940; Altars; Pulpits; Organs;

ca. 1934. State Historical Society officer William P. Bonney, Clifford Babcock (president Wa. State Historical Society), and David H. White (president Washington Pioneers Association) photographed on steps of Fort Nisqually granary building after reconstruction at Point Defiance Park, circa 1934. The Granary was one of the two buildings original to the Fort that remained. It was built in 1851 and is the oldest standing building in the state of Washington. It was created as a storage facility for the Fort's harvest of produce and grain. ( Fort Nisqually web site.) (filed with Argentum)

Parks--Tacoma; Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Hudson's Bay Co. (Tacoma); Frontier & pioneer life--Tacoma; Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Bonney, William P.; Washington State Historical Society (Tacoma);

ca. 1934. State Historical Society officer William P. Bonney beside shed containing the boiler from the Hudson's Bay Company's S.S. Beaver, the first steam ship on the Pacific Ocean. Photograph taken around 1934 during the reconstruction of Fort Nisqually at Point Defiance Park. (filed with Argentum)

Parks--Tacoma; Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Hudson's Bay Co. (Tacoma); Frontier & pioneer life--Tacoma; Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Bonney, William P.; Washington State Historical Society (Tacoma); Boilers;

ca. 1934. The bastion, company store and granary at Fort Nisqually under reconstruction in Point Defiance Park. In 1934, with the backing of the Young Mens' Business Club of Tacoma, activity began to move the Hudson's Bay Co. trading post from near DuPont to Point Defiance Park. The fort had been closed since 1869 and was steadily deteriorating. (filed with Argentum)

Parks--Tacoma; Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Hudson's Bay Co. (Tacoma); Frontier & pioneer life--Tacoma; Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Trading posts--Tacoma;

ca. 1934. State Historical Society officer William P. Bonney and three other men looking at architectural drawings for the reconstruction of Fort Nisqually at Point Defiance Park. The men are, left to right, R.L. (Roland) Borhek, Architect in charge of construction; Bonney; Clifford Babcock, President Washington State Historical Society; and David H. White, President Washington Pioneers Association. Partly finished buildings in background. The group frequently visits the site to inspect its historical authenticity. (T. Times 8/3/1934, pg. 3)

Parks--Tacoma; Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Hudson's Bay Co. (Tacoma); Frontier & pioneer life--Tacoma; Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Bonney, William P.; Washington State Historical Society (Tacoma); Borhek, R.L.; Babcock, Clifford; White, David H.;

ca. 1934. Artifacts from original Fort Nisqually excavated during move of surviving buildings to Point Defiance Park in 1934. (filed with Argentum)

Parks--Tacoma; Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Frontier & pioneer life--Tacoma; Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Equipment;

ca. 1934. Wilhelmi Tea. Three women dressed in long gowns and wide brim hats standing on a very rustic bridge made of tree limbs and small trees. Pine trees in the background. Dorothy May Wilhelmi (later Dorothy Wilhelmi Atkins) is the middle of the group. She was born in 1905 and passed away in 2001. The Wilhelmi family home still stands at 708 North Carr, at the corner of North Yakima Avenue and Carr Street. (T. Times) (WSHS) (Additional information provided by a reader)

Women--Clothing & dress--1930-1940; Wilhelmi, Dorothy May; Pedestrian bridges--Tacoma;

ca. 1934. Mrs. Bishop with roses, circa 1934. Woman and man by table with the ribbon winning roses from the Tacoma Rose Show in vases. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma Daily Ledger.

Roses; Tacoma Rose Show (Tacoma); Awards; Contests;

ca. 1934. Mrs Blakesly's Garden Club. Women in garden next to rock pond. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma News Tribune. (filed with Argentum)

Clubwomen--Tacoma--1930-1940; Gardens;

ca. 1936. Demarest Tea at "Shadowland," circa 1936. Shadowland was the country home at 12101 Gravelly Lake Dr. S.W., in the Interlaaken Addition of Lakewood, purchased by Ernest W. Demarest in 1924. Women having tea, some seated on porch swing. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma Times. (filed with Argentum)

Demarest, Ernest--Homes & haunts; Clubwomen--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1934. Exterior view of unidentified shingled building with many stained glass windows used as a church. For Leybolt-Smith Shingle Company. (filed with Argentum)

Churches--1930-1940; Leybolt-Smith Shingle Co. (Tacoma);

Blue Star, under construction, Mantra Marine, wider view of shop, Ed Beck's company, Seattle, stern view. Vessel was low-draft gillnetter built specifically for the Kodiak & Alaska fisheries. Ed Beck fished one of his boats around Kodiak in the summer.

ca. 1937. Group of two men in suits and one woman - Grand chiefs of the Redmen. The group is tentatively identified as Mr. and Mrs. Eamans and Mr. Conner. (T. Times)

Improved Order of Redmen (Tacoma);

ca. 1937. Group of five men in suits - Grand chiefs of the Redmen. The men are tentatively identified by the last names of Eamans, Conner, LIndstrom, Berg and Linn. (T. Times)

Improved Order of Redmen (Tacoma);

ca. 1937. Group of eight Grand Chiefs, Improved Order of Redmen, ca. 1937. Group of men in suits, some wearing Indian headdresses. The Order of Red Men trace their origins to certain secret Patriotic Societies founded before the American Revolution. It is the nation's oldest patriotic fraternal organization of American, not European, origin. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma Times. (filed with Argentum)

Improved Order of Redmen (Tacoma);

ca. 1937. Puyallup Drill Team, Degree of Pocahontas, circa 1937. Group of women, all are wearing corsages. The Degree of Pocahontas was authorized by the Improved Order of the Red Men in 1885 in Elmira, New York. (filed with Argentum)

Improved Order of Redmen, Degree of Pocahontas (Puyallup);

Mrs. Phoebe Maxson sitting in a rocking chair outside her residence, the Frank Tobey Jones Home for the Aged, prior to her 100th birthday. Mrs. Maxson will turn 100 years old on October 11, 1934. This photograph was also used in the T. Times in October of 1935 with a story recounting Mrs. Maxson's 101st birthday. Photograph ordered by Dr. W.W. Danel, Mrs. Maxson's son and a resident of Honolulu. Mrs. Maxson was born on a ranch in Ohio and came west in the early 1880's. Her first husband, S.A. Danel of Illinois, died in 1900. She married A.M. Maxson several years later and also outlived him. She has lived at the Toby Jones home since 1923 and is a devoted member of the Monday Civic Club. (T. Times 10/11/1935, pg. 7; 9/29/1934, pg. 1)

Maxson, Phoebe; Aged persons; Centenarians; Franke Tobey Jones Home (Tacoma);

ca. 1934. Two unidentified young women out for a summer ride, circa 1934, sitting on bicycles stopped at the curb next to a park. (WSHS)

Bicycles & tricycles--1930-1940; Cycling; Cyclists;

ca. 1934. Two unidentified young women out for a summer ride, sitting on bicycles stopped at the curb next to a building clad with stucco. The bicycle kick stands, which fold up and down, are attached to the rear wheels. (WSHS)

Bicycles & tricycles--1930-1940; Cycling; Cyclists;

ca. 1934. Dr. Joseph Huggins (left), "Little Joe" the youngest of the Huggins boys raised at Fort Nisqually, and W.P. Bonney (right), secretary of the State Historical Society, at the door of Fort Nisqually Factor's House after the reconstruction of the Hudson's Bay Co. post at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma. They are looking for the marks made on the post made by Edward Huggins to measure the height of his growing young sons. Time and weather had obliterated the marks. A drive to move Fort Nisqually from its original location in DuPont to a bluff overlooking the Narrows was begun by the Young Men's Business Club of Tacoma. It culminated in the Fort's formal dedication September 3, 1934. Only two of the original buildings could be moved, the Factor's House, pictured, and the Granary. The Factor's House was built in 1854 for Dr. Tolmie in the new "Yankee style," to replace the smaller and older Tyee House. (E.T. Short's column T. Times 8-18-1934; Fort Nisqually web site)

Bonney, William P.; Parks--Tacoma; Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Hudson's Bay Co. (Tacoma); Frontier & pioneer life--Tacoma; Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Huggins, Joseph;

ca. 1934. Dr. Joseph Huggins of Philadelphia, who spent his childhood at Fort Nisqually, views the reconstruction of the fort at Point Defiance Park from the steps of the Granary. As Dr. Huggins gazed over the rebuilt fort, he said that it looked "pretty much like the old place." The restoration had its formal dedication on September 3, 1934, more than 100 years after the fort's original construction in 1833. The original Fort Nisqually, a Hudson's Bay Co. fur gathering post and the first settlement in Pierce County, was located in DuPont. A movement was spearheaded by the Young Men's Business Club of Tacoma to move it to a high bluff in Point Defiance Park overlooking the Narrows and restore it. The only original buildings that were still intact were the Granary, pictured, and the Factor's house. The Granary was constructed in 1851, making it the oldest standing building in the state of Washington. It was a storage facility for the posts' grain and harvest.

Parks--Tacoma; Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Hudson's Bay Co. (Tacoma); Frontier & pioneer life--Tacoma; Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Huggins, Joseph;

ca. 1934. On September 3, 1934, Dr. Joseph Huggins of Philadelphia was photographed outside the old granary building located at the newly reconstructed Fort Nisqually, which had been moved to Point Defiance Park. Dr. Huggins, known as "little Joe" when he was growing up at the Fort, was the youngest son of Edward Huggins and lived in the Factor's House when his father ran the post. He remembered a childhood lived at a slower pace, with time after chores, reading, checkers and good conversation. Dr. Huggins, a dentist, was in town for the formal dedication of Fort Nisqually. He stayed for a month visiting with old friends. (E.T. Short's column T. Times 8-18-1934)

Parks--Tacoma; Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Hudson's Bay Co. (Tacoma); Frontier & pioneer life--Tacoma; Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Huggins, Joseph;

ca. 1934. Pacific Bank Note Company, printer. Advertisement for Washington Gas & Electric Company, "Why cook in the horseless carriage age. A modern gas range pays for itself!" (WSHS)

Washington Gas & Electric Co. (Tacoma); Stoves--1930-1940;

Sourdough Reunion, held in Tacoma August 16-19, 1934. Three men gather to reminisce about Alaska. On the right is D.E. Griffith of Auburn, the Reunion Manager. "Sourdough" is a slang term for the early Alaskan gold miners. Over 2,000 Alaskan pioneers were expected to attend and share tales of early days on the gold trails. (T. Times) (WSHS)

Griffith, D.E.; Pioneers--Alaska; Gold miners;

D.E. Griffin (R) shakes hands with another Alaskan pioneer during the Sourdough Reunion held in Tacoma in August, 1934. Mr. Griffin, of Auburn, was the Reunion Manager. Attendance was anticipated to be over 2000 for the four-day event with plenty of stories to be shared.

Griffin, D.E.; Pioneers--Alaska; Gold miners--Alaska;