Pacific Telephone and Telegraph women employees' bowling team. A young girl poses in the center of the front row.

Telephone companies--Tacoma; Telephone operators--Tacoma--1940-1950; Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. (Tacoma)--Employees; Bowlers--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Young boy wearing a WW I helmet operates a tractor pulling another piece of farm equipment. Three adult men stand talking in the background in this photograph dated July 9, 1941.

Tractors; Rural areas;

View of a trailer park taken for the Bremerton Sun newspaper on March 31, 1941.

Trailers; Mobile homes; Mobile home living;

On July 17, 1941, Ed Kinderbeck, ice handler at Tacoma Ice Company, cools-off on a block of ice as the temperature in Tacoma reaches 94.2 degrees. Slight relief came in the evening with a tremendous lightning show and thunderstorm accompanied by large, lukewarm rain drops. The following day, Tacoma set a new all-time record for the hottest seven days in Tacoma's recorded weather history since late July and August of 1898. (T. Times, 7/18/1941, pp. 1 & 3).

Weather; Heat--Tacoma--1940-1950; Temperature--1940-1950; Ice--Tacoma; Kinderbeck, Ed; Tacoma Ice Co. (Tacoma);

Jean Vennette McDonald and William Jepson were married on Saturday afternoon, August 17, 1941 at the Little Church on the Prairie. The wedding was followed by a reception at the Steilacoom Lake home of the bride's aunt and uncle, Mrs. and Mrs. Otto H. Weller. The wedding guests are pictured outside the large Dutch Colonial house in the trees. (T. Times 8/18/1941, pg. 7)

Weddings--Lakewood--1940-1950; McDonald, Jean--Marriage; Brides--1940-1950;

Wedding of Miss Barbara Ball and Henry Hewitt, Jr., held May 24, 1941 at the Mount Baker Presbyterian Church, Seattle, and followed by a reception at the Rainier Club. The parents of the bride and groom pose for a portrait. On the left are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hewitt and on the right are Mr. and Mrs. R. Douglas Ball of Seattle.

Weddings--Seattle--1940-1950;

Wedding of Miss Barbara Ball and Henry Hewitt, Jr., held May 24, 1941 at the Mount Baker Presbyterian Church, Seattle. Pictured are the mothers of the bride and groom. On the left is believed to be Mrs. Henry Hewitt in a periwinkle blue lace dress with a fuchsia and black hat and purple orchids. To the right is believed to be Mrs. Ball in a dress with black lace over dusty pink, a Lily Dache hat with a green veil and green orchids. (T. Times 5/26/1941, pg. 11)

Weddings--Seattle--1940-1950; Ball, Douglas--Family; Hewitt, Henry--Family;

Despite the early hour on the wedding, 10 a.m. on August 12, 1941, Owen Thomas Gallagher, the groom, and a group of friends tap a keg in the basement during the reception. The wedding of Gallagher and Georgann Leahey was held at the Holy Cross Church, 10th & Verde. The following reception was at the bride's parents' home at 3808 No. 33rd St. The other men pictured are possibly Best Man William Gallagher and ushers Robert Gallagher, James McMenamin and Philip Brockert. (T. Times 8/16/1941, pg. 5)

Weddings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Gallagher, Owen Thomas; Grooms (Weddings)--1940-1950;

Wedding in late spring of 1941 of Dorothy Walesby and Arthur Hagan at Immanuel Presbyterian Church. The bride and groom happily duck rice shower inside the front doors. Building by Russell and Babcock, Architects, 1909. [Also dated 06-13-1941]

Weddings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Immanuel Presbyterian Church (Tacoma); Walesby, Dorothy--Marriage; Hagan, Arthur; Brides--1940-1950; Grooms (Weddings)--1940-1950; Wedding attendants--Tacoma;

Bridal portrait of Georgann Leahey Gallagher. Georgann Leahey and Owen Thomas Gallagher married at 10a.m. Tuesday August 12, 1941 at the Holy Cross Church, 10th & Verde, with the Rev. Martin Duggan officiating. The reception was held at the Leahey home. The bride is posed at her family home wearing her wedding gown of white satin with a sweetheart neckline, fitted bodice and long train and veil. She is carrying a prayerbook adorned with a white orchid. The bride is a graduate of Aquinas Academy. (T. Times 8/16/1941, pg. 5)

Weddings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Leahey, Georgann--Marriage; Brides--1940-1950; Wedding clothing & dress--1940-1950;

The Georgann Leahey- Owen Thomas Gallagher wedding. The couple was married on August 12, 1941 at the Holy Cross Church. The wedding was followed by reception at the Leahey home, 3808 No. 33rd St. The bride and groom are pictured along with maid of honor Julia Jean Leahey (in blue) and bridesmaids (in pink and in no particular order) Mary Agnes Gallagher, Mrs. James McMenamin and Edna Fraser. William Gallagher was his brother's Best Man. The couples on the right are Mrs. and Mrs. William Gallagher (parents of the groom) and between them and the bridal couple are Mr. and Mrs. George W. Leahey (parents of the bride.) (T. Times 8/16/1941, pg. 5)

Weddings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Leahey, Georgann--Marriage; Gallagher, Owen Thomas; Brides--1940-1950; Grooms (Weddings)--1940-1950; Wedding clothing & dress--1940-1950;

New well at Fircrest. This is one of two new wells drilled in Fircrest to replace an antiquated pump-spring system installed in 1907 when the town was first developed. L. V. Denny of Tacoma received a contract to drill both wells. With pumps installed and reservoirs completed, the town's new water system went into service on June 17, 1941, yielding 1,500 gallons of water per minute as compared to 200 gallons from the old water system. (T. Times 6/17/1941, pg. 3)

Wells--Fircrest; Drilling; Drilling & boring machinery;

On March 29-30, 1941, the Woodbrook Hunt Club hosted a joint spring hunt with the Columbia Hunt Club from Portland. Thirty five riders and their mounts journeyed to the Lakewood Club to participate. Riders, horses and hunting dogs loiter, waiting for the hunt to begin. (T. Times 3/19/1941, pg. 10)

Woodbrook Hunt Club (Lakewood); Horses--Tacoma;

In September of 1941, Tommy Woodworth carefully inspected the two scale model replicas of Great Northern locomotives that were on display at the Puyallup Fair. The model engines were on loan to the Northwest Railway Historical Society. The lower model is the 1870 woodburning William Crooks, known as #1. The original engine (see G44.1 image 129) was still in running order. The one Tommy is looking at is a 2500 series passenger locomotive, the newest of the Great Northern locomotives. The models were complete in detail, even to the working parts. (TNT 9/14/1941, pg. 4)

Woodworth, Tommy; Railroad locomotives; Great Northern Railway Co. (Tacoma); Model railroads;

On July 23, 1941, Boy Scouts from Troop 42, in the Larchmont area, were pictured at 9th and Broadway with their donations for the wartime scrap aluminum drive. The boys had quite a collection of old metal, including the washing machine that they are heaving into the main dump site. A large wire enclosure was being used to corral the donated metal during the weeklong city drive. The eleven boys in the troop brought 135 donation pieces from their Southeastern neighborhood. (T. Times 7/25/1941, pg. 3; eleven boys in troop named in article)

World War, 1939-1945--Scrap drives; Boy Scouts of America, Troop 42 (Tacoma); Aluminum;

On July 23, 1941, eleven Boy Scouts of Troop 42 from the Larchmont area of southeast Tacoma came downtown to contribute 135 pieces of scrap aluminum to the aluminum collection drive. The metal was needed to build bombers for the Army Air Corp. The main collection dump was at the corner of South 9th and Broadway, in front of the Music Box Theater. The Larchmont area centered near South 96th Street and Pacific Avenue; it was planned to be a select suburban community with streets named after famous colleges such as Harvard, Yale and Amherst. Boys taking part in the aluminum drive were: (in no particular order) Billy Bowlin, Walter Oden, Richard Ruth, Dickie Hansler, Don Lang, Elroy Burnett, Gerald Griffith, Raleigh Elkins, Stanley Vernon, Leslie Roley and Tomio Akimoto. (T. Times 7/25/1941, pg.3)

World War, 1939-1945--Scrap drives; Boy Scouts of America, Troop 42 (Tacoma); Music Box Theatre (Tacoma); Aluminum;

This photograph, taken on October 3, 1941, is of the corner of 11th and A Street, showing traffic from the shipyard into the city. The city had plans to extend Alexander Ave. across 11th Street to Lincoln Ave. to create a new route and hopefully relieve this bottleneck on 11th Street. However, federal aid would be needed to extend the road across the water covered Tideflats.The Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. had recently expanded its work force, due to military contracts, and this was causing increased traffic congestion. (T.Times 9/23/1941, pg. 4)

World War, 1939-1945--War work--Tacoma; Automobiles--1940-1950; Traffic congestion--Tacoma--1940-1950;

In October of 1941, long lines of automobiles crawl down Alexander Ave. at the end of the shift at the Seattle- Tacoma shipyard. The shipyard was located at the end of Alexander Ave. and there was only one way for the workers to get back into town. (T. Times 10/10/1941, pg. 1)

World War, 1939-1945--War work--Tacoma; Automobiles--1940-1950; Traffic congestion--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Mr. and Mrs. Townley Pearson (Ruth Adair) and two other couples pose at Boeing Airport just after wedding ceremony. The pairs are in front of a United plane "City of Akron." [Also dated 04-21-1941]

Magazine display rack at Camp Murray for Rothermel News Agency.

Past presidents and charter members of Philomathae (Philmathar) Club at Connor residence.. (T. Times)

Interiors and exteriors of the new buildings at Clover Park School; the music room. A few large instruments lie abandoned, waiting for their student musician.

Clover Park High School (Lakewood);

The Peoples Store at South 11th and Pacific was in the middle of its three year program of modernization when this photograph of its exterior was taken late March, 1941. A painter on scaffolding can be seen near the top of the building as painting of the department store's exterior has just commenced. Peoples was a longtime fixture in downtown Tacoma as it began operations in 1895. The store constantly ran ads in the local newspapers with their slogan "more merchandise for less money." It would finally close in 1983.

Department stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Peoples (Tacoma); Facades--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Sunrise services took place in the mist of dawn on Easter Sunday, 1941, beginning at 6 a.m. for the 41st Division at Fort Lewis. The services were being held in a natural amphitheater located in the new 41st Cantonment. Two rugged crosses on either side of the evergreen covered pulpit dominated the scene. A white cross raised above and in the center symbolized the resurrection on Easter morning. A uniformed 100 voice choir led the group in celebration hymns. Ten thousand people were expected to attend the services conducted by Maj. M.M. Van Patten, with Governor Langlie and General George A. White as special speakers. The last half hour was broadcast over Mutual Broadcasting. (T. Times 4/7/1941, pg. 9; 4/12/41, pg. 14; 4/14/41, pg. 1)

Easter--Fort Lewis; Celebrations--Fort Lewis--1940-1950; Holidays; 41st Division Cantonment (Fort Lewis);

Interior of Moose Hall-room w/2 lg. windows,vinyl chairs, thick carpet. Photograph taken in July of 1941.

Fraternal organizations--Tacoma; Chairs;

Moose Hall hallway w/chairs and flag at rear. Paneled walls, thick carpet.

Fraternal organizations--Tacoma; Flags--United States;

Bunk and galley area in front of engine in fishing boat

Galleys (Ship kitchens); Boat engines; Fishing boats--1940-1950;

Pictures of the cast of "Of Men and Models," an original musical produced at Lincoln High School.

Lincoln High School (Tacoma); Theatrical Productions--Tacoma--1940-1950; Operas & operettas--Tacoma--1940-1950;