Ordered by Holroyd Company. A one-story, single-family residence is seen during construction with scaffolding in place from placing the concrete block and constructing the roof. The roof has been covered with tar-paper in preparation to the final roofing material.

Concrete products industry--Tacoma; Holroyd Co. (Tacoma); Houses--Tacoma--1950-1960; Building materials; Concrete--Tacoma--1950-1960; Building construction--Tacoma--1950-1960;

View through a bulkhead doorway of the tuna clipper "Mona Lisa" into the machine room, for Martinac Shipbuilding. Bright work lights illuminate a series of valves on the left hand side, a walkway transverses the center with a large pipe on either side. This room is probably under the water line and the door can be closed and secured if the vessel takes on water. The "Mona Lisa" was driven by a huge 8 cylinder 12" x 15" direct-reversible Superior diesel, that delivered 616 hp at 430 rpm. The main propulsion engine was backed by two 150hp General Motors diesel auxiliaries. ("Pacific Fisherman" June 1951, pg 29-31) TPL-9039

J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Fishing boats--Tacoma--1950-1960;

The Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company of Washington held an open house on August 8, 1950, to officially celebrate its parent firm's 100th anniversary. The Pennsalt tideflats location at 2901 Taylor Way welcomed a large crowd of visitors and employees. Despite its name, Pennsalt did not make common table salt but did manufacture more than 300 chemical products. (TNT 8-6-50, A-9)

Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. of Washington (Tacoma); Pennsalt (Tacoma); Chemical industry--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Ten women pose in front of a Pennsalt display during the company's 100th anniversary celebration. Pennsalt's Tacoma location on Taylor Way opened its doors on August 8, 1950, so that visitors could tour the plant, examine displays, and become aware of the 300 and more products manufactured by Pennsalt. The Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company of Washington has itself been a vital presence in the tideflats since 1929 and is one of Pennsalt's eight manufacturing plants in the nation. (TNT 8-6-50, p. A-9)

Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. of Washington (Tacoma); Pennsalt (Tacoma); Chemical industry--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Visitors to the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company of Washington's open house celebration on August 8, 1950, enjoy one of the many interesting tours given that day. Pennsalt opened the doors to their Tacoma plant in the tideflats to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of its parent firm. Here the man in white shirt and tie gestures toward what appears to be large holding tanks. Pennsalt manufactures many kinds of chemical products, including caustic soda and liquid chlorine, from coarse gray salt. (TNT 8-6-50, A-9)

Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. of Washington (Tacoma); Pennsalt (Tacoma); Chemical industry--Tacoma--1950-1960;

A new Coe lathe was installed at the Puget Sound Plywood Company plant on Tacoma's tideflats in 1950. Four unidentified employees at the plant monitored the giant lathe which was used to peel a continuous sheet of thin veneer off a prepared log. The veneer sheets were then glued together to make plywood. When the Puget Sound Plywood plant at 230 East F Street was built in 1942, Tacoma was a major plywood manufacturing center with over half a dozen plywood factories. Puget Sound Plywood was the first cooperative plywood plant in Tacoma.

Puget Sound Plywood, Inc. (Tacoma); Lathes; Plywood; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Cooperatives--Tacoma;

Extended shot of Nalley's facilities taken across the tracks on August 25, 1950. Several buildings on Nalley's show the growth of the company which began in 1918. By 1950, Nalley's had become a $10,000,000 business with such diverse products as potato chips, mayonaise, "Tang" and "Lumber Jack Syrup".

Nalley's, Inc. (Tacoma); Food industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Industrial facilities--Tacoma;

Exterior exposure of Nalley's Sales Department building. Taken on a rare rainy day in August, 1950, a Dodge delivery truck with Nalley signs painted on can be seen outside the Nalley's Sales Department building on South Lawrence. Painted white, the building has two floors and is made of cement block. Signs on the building state that Nalley's is a wholesale distributor of food specialties.

Nalley's, Inc. (Tacoma); Nalley's Sales Department (Tacoma);

Cold room constuction, Douglas Fir Plywood Association laboratory, Dave Countryman. Worker installing plywood panels on walls of foil insulated room on October 31, 1950.

Plywood; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma);

Dust collecting equipment at Tacoma Smelter. While copper was the principal product from the Tacoma plant of American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO), there were also by-products including gold, silver, arsenic and nickel sulphate. The acid plant which went onto production in April 1950 produced 100 tons of sulphuric acid a day that was used by the Stauffer Chemical Company in the manufacture of super-phosphate fertilizer. Ordered by American Air Filter Company, c/o R.E. Chase & Company, Mr. Warren.

American Smelting & Refining Co. (Tacoma); Smelters--Tacoma--1940-1950; Copper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma;

Two ships are docked at Hooker Electrochemical. A freighter with on-deck tanks has rails on either side of the ship. The rails on deck accommodated chlorine tank cars and caustic soda tank cars. Another freighter is seen on the left with the name "Mogul". In the distance, between the two ships, is a bridge over the Hylebos Waterway. Hooker Electrochemical Company held their first Board of Directors meeting in Tacoma in October 1950. The company's main offices were in Niagara Falls, New York. They had plants there and in Wilmington, California and Tacoma. (TNT, 11/2/1950, p.B-10)

Chemical industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; Hooker Electrochemical Co. (Tacoma); Cargo ships--Tacoma;

A freighter with two tanks on deck is docked at Hooker Electrochemical loading dock on the Hylebos Waterway. Many large storage tanks are seen at the chemical producing facility. Hooker fine and heavy chemicals included: acid chlorides, bleaching powder, metallic chlorides, muriatic acid, naphthalene derivatives, sulfide derivatives, toluene derivatives, hydrogenated products, fatty acid esters, chlorine liquids, chlorinating agents, chlorinated paraffins, caustic soda, aliphatic chlorides, benzene derivatives and benzoates.

Chemical industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; Hooker Electrochemical Co. (Tacoma); Cargo ships--Tacoma; Storage tanks--Tacoma;

Aerial view of Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company facilities in Portland, Oregon. President Fred C. Shanaman reported that with the addition of the new facilities for manufacture of chlorine, caustic soda and technical DDT, production at the Portland plant increased substantially in 1947; photo ordered by John Baker, Superintendent of Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company of Washington, Tacoma plant.

Chemical industry--Oregon--Portland; Chemicals; Industrial facilities--Oregon--Portland; Aerial photographs; Aerial views; Waterfronts; Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. (Portland, Or.);

J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding, sea trials of the Mary S. The galley of the new tuna clipper, the Mary S. TPL-630

J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Ship trials--Tacoma--1940-1950; Fishing boats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Galleys (Ship kitchens);

Tacoma was the nation's leader in the plywood industry. Douglas Fir Plywood Association and the Plywood Research Foundation were working on developing new and additional products that could be manufactured from parts of the tree not already being utilized. View of two unidentified DFPA representatives at the annual DFPA conference, being held at the Winthrop Hotel; conference welcome sign in background.

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Business people--Tacoma--1940-1950; Meetings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Signs (Notices); Plywood; Hotel Winthrop (Tacoma); Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma);

Crust breaking machine at Permanente, Bill Gorman. A specialized machine has been manufactured to perform the work that had previously been done manually. A crust would form at the openings to the reduction pots where alumina was melted into raw pig aluminum. The plant had two potlines containing 240 reduction pots producing 41 million pounds of alumium per year. (Permanente Metals Corp. 1947-1948 Annual Report)

Permanente Metals Corp. (Tacoma); Aluminum industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Machinery;

Northern Pacific started a gradual change from steam to diesel power in 1938, they had their first freight diesel electric locomotive in operation and on the road in 1944 and passenger diesels have been added since 1947. Throughout the years Northern Pacific has expanded in Tacoma and in the United States. View of water column at Northern Pacific Railway Company's yards, located at 2102-2324 East L Street in Tacoma's tideflats area.

Railroad tracks--Tacoma; Penstocks--Tacoma; Hydraulic facilities--Tacoma; Water pumps--Tacoma; Water use--Tacoma--1940-1950; Railroads--Tacoma--1940-1950; Railroad companies--Tacoma; Northern Pacific Railway Co. (Tacoma);

Machinery at Wesley Crawford & Sons, U.P. Freight Terminal, Mr. Crawford. Wesley Crawford was president of Mutual Fruit Co. Seven women are working at a conveyor system packing fruit.

Wesley Crawford & Son (Tacoma)--Employees; Farm produce--Tacoma; Packaging; Shipping--Tacoma--1940-1950; Food industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Cascade Pole Co., Mr. Bowman. A man is tightening the cables holding the nearly 40 utility poles to the trailer of this truck. The poles have been treated with creosote, also manufactured at Cascade Pole, to increase their life as utility poles. Chas. E. Newbury of Tacoma, Washington, is painted on the door of the cab.

Cascade Pole Co. (Tacoma); Utility poles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Several shots at Milwaukee shops, also studio shots of three people, Great Lakes Steel Crop., Steel Floor Div., Detroit, Mich. Three unidentified people are talking together outside where they can overlook the industrial Tacoma Tideflats. The man on the left holds a cane in his hands, crossed in front of him. The woman in the middle wears a straw hat decorated with artificial flowers. The gentleman on the right is wearing a bow tie and a double-breasted suit.

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co. (Tacoma); Aged persons--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Several shots at Milwaukee shops, also studio shots of three people, Great Lakes Steel Crop., Steel Floor Div., Detroit, Mich. Men are working on a railroad car at the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company shop. A man has stopped his welding job while several men in suits are reviewing the work.

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co. (Tacoma); Railroad cars--Tacoma--1940-1950; Railroad companies--Tacoma--1940-1950; Welding--Tacoma--1940-1950;

DFPA. A workman is laying a plywood sub-floor at what is believed to be the Devlin home. The walls have been covered with plywood as well. An edge of a brick fireplace is seen on the right. Large floor-to-ceiling windows are seen on the left. The beams are left open on the ceiling. The home was being restored after purchase earlier in 1949.

Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Plywood; Devlin, Charles E.--Homes & haunts; Floors--Lakewood--1940-1950;

J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corporation. Six unidentified men lean over the railing on the upper deck of a boat at J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corportation.

J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

New machinery at Titus Manufacturing Company, Mr. Leon Titus. A workman is bench testing one of the rebuilt Ford "flathead" V8 engines.

Machine Shops--Tacoma--1940-1950; Titus Manufacturing Co. (Tacoma)--Employees; Engines; Automobile equipment & supplies; Vehicle maintenance & repair--Tacoma--1940-1950;

New machinery at Titus Manufacturing Company, Mr. Leon Titus. A workman is installing camshafts or honing camshaft housing during rebuilding of Ford "flathead" V8 engines.

Machine Shops--Tacoma--1940-1950; Titus Manufacturing Co. (Tacoma)--Employees; Engines; Vehicle maintenance & repair--Tacoma--1940-1950; Mechanics (Persons)--Tacoma--1940-1950; Assembly-line methods--Tacoma--1940-1950;

New machinery at Titus Manufacturing Company, Mr. Leon Titus. A workman at the machine shop is assembling rebuilt Ford "flathead" V8 engines. He is measuring one of the moving parts with calipers. Bins of parts are conveniently located behind him.

Machine Shops--Tacoma--1940-1950; Titus Manufacturing Co. (Tacoma)--Employees; Engines; Vehicle maintenance & repair--Tacoma--1940-1950; Mechanics (Persons)--Tacoma--1940-1950; Assembly-line methods--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Truck loaded and dumping lumber, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber, Helgeson. Three large logs are loaded on the trailer of a Rucker Brothers truck. The enormous logs are on their way to the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company. Robert G. Helgeson was a forester with St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company. TPL-8290

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

Cape Beverly was built by J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding for Capt. Paul Lynn. She was designed by Arthur DeFever of San Pedro and carried excellent equipment: a 615 hp Superior engine, twin 150 hp GM auxiliaries, a Sperry magnetic compas pilot with Sperry electro-magnetic steering system, a Submarine Signal Co. Fathometer, Apelco direction finder and 500 watt Pacific Electronics radiophone. (Pacific Fisherman July 1950, p.37.) TPL-9030

J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Ship trials--Tacoma--1950-1960; Fishing boats--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Cape Beverly, 113 feet x 28 feet, was built by J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding for Capt. Paul Lynn. Designed by Arthur DeFever of San Pedro she had a 220 ton capacity and the fish were chilled by three big ice machines. (Pacific Fisherman July 1950, p.37.) TPL-9031

J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Ship trials--Tacoma--1950-1960; Fishing boats--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Progress photograph of steelwork at St. Regis Paper Company. The new multiwall bag plant, adjoining the paper mill, was to replace a leased plant at Seattle. The plant was expected to be in operation before April 1, 1952. It would employ approximately 400 people, including a large percentage of women. (St. Regis Annual Report 1951)

Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Progress photographs; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Building construction--Tacoma--1950-1960;