Red Cross. Well over 1,000 Christmas gifts have been wrapped and are placed on tables. Thirteen Red Cross workers and volunteers pose in the upper center.

American Red Cross Pierce County Chapter (Tacoma); Gifts; Charitable organizations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Community service--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Red Cross. Various gifts including belts, scarves, billfolds and ball point pens are stacked on the table where seven volunteers are wrapping Christmas gifts for service men and women.

American Red Cross Pierce County Chapter (Tacoma); Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Charitable organizations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Community service--Tacoma--1940-1950; Gifts; Packaging; Christmas presents;

Thirteen volunteers were photographed in early December of 1946 wrapping Christmas gifts for the servicemen who were patients at Madigan and American Lake hospitals. The ladies are hard at work in the Red Cross Building at 702-04 Broadway, hoping to make the "Best Christmas Yet" for the hospital-bound military personnel. At least 3,000 individual Christmas parcels were provided during the 1946 holiday season. Emmett Anderson was the chairman of this community service channeled through the Red Cross. Among the largest donors were the Tacoma and Puyallup Elks Lodges, the Army-Navy Club and the Central Labor Council. (T.Times, 12/7/1946, p.7-article)

American Red Cross Pierce County Chapter (Tacoma); Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Charitable organizations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Community service--Tacoma--1940-1950; Gifts; Packaging; Christmas presents;

Geraldine (Mrs. Harold W.) Newman, dance committee chairperson, shows a dress to other Aquinas Academy alumnae during a meeting held to plan their annual Thanksgiving night dance. This year the dance will be held at the Club New Yorker. The other members of the planning committee are, from left to right: Mrs. Louis Grenier, Mrs. Harold Campbell, Constance A. (Mrs. Clarence) Baarsma, and Mary (Mrs. John, Jr.) DePolo. (T.Times, 11/16/1946, p.10) TPL-6572

Aquinas Academy (Tacoma)--Alumnae; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Newman, Geraldine; Baarsma, Constance A.; DePolo, Mary; Clubwomen--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Exterior of Murphy's Cigars, Cafe and Tavern. The sign over the entrance has neon lights and the front of the cafe is made of glass blocks; electric jewelry sign in background. Photograph was taken on December 6, 1946. TPL-7949

Bars--Tacoma--1940-1950; Taverns (Inns)--Tacoma--1940-1950; Restaurants--Tacoma--1940-1950; Beer halls--Tacoma--1940-1950; Murphy's (Tacoma); Electric signs--Tacoma--1940-1950; City & town life--Tacoma--1940-1950

Douglas Fir Plywood Association, four men building a plywood boat. The men are working on the bottom of a boat held up by inner supports. Tools and building materials line the wall of the workshop. Another boat sitting upright is in the foreground.

Boats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Douglas Fir Plywood Association, one man working on a plywood boat. The boat is upright and shows the interior bracing for the hull. Exterior grade plywood required water-proof glues and a heat/pressure treatment. For boat building, plywood would require additional waterproofing.

Boats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Marine Research. A motor boat afloat at a dock. The craft has in inboard motor, a small windshield and three rows of seats. The boat is made of plywood. Plywood boats were found to be light and durable. Marine Research also well known as the manufacturer of 16 foot laminated inboard boats of one-piece keel, stem and shaft logs as well as a line of specially developed utiliyt trailers. Headed by M.G. Gunther, Marine Research also produced 18 foot commercial skiffs for tuna clippers. (T.Times, 12/25/1946, p.12)

Boats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Plywood; Marine Research Corp. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Marine Research. Two men take a small motor boat for a trial run. The craft has in inboard motor, a small windshield and three rows of seats. The boat is made of plywood.

Boats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Plywood; Marine Research Corp. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Wearing the latest in stylish glasses, these women bowled for Green's Optometrists, 254 So. 11th, in November of 1946 at the Broadway Bowling Center. The women are wearing matching bowling shirts with their names above the left pocket: Marlys, Jean, Helen, Jona and Peggy. Several women's leagues competed at the Broadway Alleys, 739 1/2 Broadway, including the Broadway Ladies and the Eagles Auxiliary.

Bowlers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Green's Optometrists (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Broadway Bowling Center (Tacoma); Bowling alleys--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Former Tacoma mayor and recently elected U.S. Senator Harry P. Cain watches with admiration at the swiftly moving fingers of pianist Dorothy Helen Eustis in a November 16, 1946, photograph. Miss Eustis was in town for a concert at the Lakewood Theater scheduled for Monday, November 18th. Unfortunately, heavy snows forced cancellation of the performance, Miss Eustis' only Northwest appearance of the year. She was born in Seattle in 1916 and had studied piano there from childhood. At age 12, she was a soloist with the Seattle Symhony Orchestra and later in her teens performed with conductor Sir Thomas Beecham and pianist Jose Iturbi. Miss Eustis also was a soloist at Carnegie Hall and debuted at New York's Town Hall. Later in life, family and friends lost track of her when she moved to Europe. She was finally found in a Venice hospital in 1995; her mental condition had rendered her nearly mute and uncommunicative. After two years in the hospital, she was transported to a Catholic convent nursing home in Florence until her death in 2001. ALBUM 13. (Additional information on Miss Eustis provided by her niece, Barbara E. Cooper)

Cain, Harry P., 1906-1979; Mayors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Eustis, Dorothy Helen; Pianos;

Mary R. (Mrs. Ralph J.) Desimon ordered this studio portrait of her three and one-half year old chow chow. Photograph was taken on November 8, 1946.

Chow chows (Dogs)--Tacoma--1940-1950; Dogs--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Hotel Croft and Pacific Avenue for Electrical Products Consolidated. A view north along Pacific Avenue. Walker Brake and Wheel is on the right side of the street with Union Station just beyond. Standard Paper Company is about one-half block ahead on the left. This view of the bustling business district of Tacoma shows automobiles, delivery trucks and city busses. The Hotel Croft is six blocks north on the right hand side. Electrical Products Condolidated were sign manufacturers. TPL-1413; TPL-1450.

Commercial streets--Tacoma--1940-1950; Union Station (Tacoma); Railroad stations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Automobiles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Buses--Tacoma--1940-1950; Cityscapes;

Nativity play portraying Mary, baby Jesus, and three wise men for the Gift of the Magi. The Monday Civic Club presented a program of living Madonnas at Weyerhaeuser Hall. The players were, L-R, Mrs. Byron Moye, Mrs. Frank T. Rybin, Mrs. H.F. Harmon and Elsie M. (Mrs. George B.) Cicovich. (T.Times, 12/25/1946, p.7)

Creches (Nativity scenes)--Tacoma--1940-1950; Biblical events; Cicovich, Elsie M.;

Gail Gunns, studio portrait, Retha Gehri Dance Studio. Two young tapdancers, a boy and a girl, dressed in their dancing costumes.

Dancers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tap dancing--Tacoma--1940-1950; Children--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Three unidentified young Tacomans get cleaned up before lunch in this photograph taken at the Tacoma Day Nursery in October of 1946. The Tacoma Day Nursery, at 1113 So. I, was founded in 1918 to provide care for pre-school children. Approximately fifty children a day used the Community Chest funded facility in 1946. (T.Times, 10/31/1946, p.2)

Day care; Tacoma Day Nursery (Tacoma); Children--Tacoma--1940-1950; Bathrooms--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hands;

Elks Club, publicity for Stocking Fillers. A new organization in the Tacoma Lodge of Elks is the F.K.S. Construction Company to rehabilitate the Elk's facilities and construction at the Temple. F.K.S. comes from the names of their three officers, L-R above, Max Frolic, Rinaldo Keasal and Walter Sutter. These men are studying plans submitted by the building committee which called for a $250,000 expenditure for a new addition and modernization throughout. (T.Times, 10/14/1946, p.8) TPL-9827

Elks Temple (Tacoma); Clubs--Tacoma--1940-1950; Architectural drawings; Blueprints; Frolic, Max; Keasal, Rinaldo; Sutter, Walter H.;

Epsilon Sigma Alpha Jewel Pin Ceremony. Four new pledges were presented with their pins and wristlets made up of golden chrysanthemums and tied with blue ribbons (the sorority's colors are blue and gold). The new members, Frances Karr, Arlene Hefferon, Mrs. John Crawford and Elsa L. Roberts, are seen seated. The many small stuffed animals they are holding and are on the floor are part of the social Christmas work being done by the sorority to be given to underpriviledged children. They met at the Green Parrot Inn located 8 miles north of Tacoma on Highway 99 at the Puyallup cut off. (T.Times, 11/26/1946, p.10)

Epsilon Sigma Alpha; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Fraternities & sororities--Tacoma--1940-1950; Stuffed animals (Toys); Green Parrot Inn (Tacoma);

Douglas Fir Plywood Association. A silo built against a barn in rural Pierce County. A conveyor belt type loader stands next to the silo as well as the farmer and his dog.

Farmers--Puyallup; Silos--Puyallup; Dogs--Puyallup; Conveying systems--Puyallup; Plywood; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

The City of Tacoma finally received the four pumper trucks ordered in 1945. All four of the new trucks are parked outside Fire House No. 2. An inspection and demonstration was held with Safety Commissioner Robert S. Temme, Fire Chief Charles J. Eisenbacher, Mayor C.V. Fawcett and other members of the city council. (T.Times, 11/13/1946, p.1)

Fire engines & equipment--Tacoma--1940-1950; Fire stations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Mayors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Fire Department, Fire Station No. 2 (Tacoma); Temme, Robert S.; Eisenbacher, Charles J.; Fawcett, Clarence Valdo, 1900-1965;

Canada geese that have been killed hang near a sign, "from Clear Lake, California, shot by Marcus Nalley, Dan Nalley, Pete Bridewell, Nick Narran and Wayne Moore". Barbara Schuler holds out one wing to show its shape and size. The birds were on display at the sports shop at Washington Hardware Company. (T.Times, 12/9/1946, p.10)

Geese--1940-1950; Goose shooting--1940-1950; Game bird hunting--1940-1950; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Schuler, Barbara; Washington Hardware Co. (Tacoma);

Ice skating star Robin Lee, from "Ice Cycles", is skating on one foot during one of his routines. The "Ice Cycles of 1946" would run for one week at the Ice Palace starting December 4th, 1946. (T.Times, 11/22/1946, p.14)

Lee, Robin; Skaters; Ice skating--Tacoma--1940-1950; Costumes;

An elevated view of the Defiance Mill saw line for I.W. Johnson Engineering. I.W. Johnson Engineering Company had produced three 8 x 60 sawmill edgers this year and then had three sizes of edgers available: 4 x 24, 8 x 60, and 10 x 72 for distribution in California, Oregon and Washington. (T.Times, 10/2/1946, p.3)

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Defiance Lumber Co. (Tacoma); Saws; Mills--Tacoma--1940-1950;

In this photograph from October 1946 for the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, a young woman on a step ladder, Shirley (Mrs. C.E.) Magarity, measures a large cross section of a log that is almost 13 feet in diameter. It used to stand outside the Northwest Door Company at 1203 East D St. when Herman E. Tenzler was president of the company. You can still see this section of a giant Douglas Fir standing by the entrance to the Lakewood Branch of the Pierce County Library system. It was moved there in 1965. (TNT 8/21/1946)

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Logs; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Measuring--Tacoma--1940-1950; Bathing suits; Magarity, Shirley; Northwest Door Co., Inc. (Tacoma); Tree stumps--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Douglas Fir Plywood Association. Two women measure a 12 foot, 9 inch log section. This was the biggest cross section ever felled by man as of this date. It was cut in the prime forests southwest of Mount Rainier in the center of western Washington. This short butt section of the tremendous tree was on view at Northwest Door Company, a local plywood and door manufacturing firm in whose logging operations the tree was brought down. (T.Times, 10/16/1946, p.4, TNT 8/21/1946) TPL-7962

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Logs; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Measuring--Tacoma--1940-1950; Northwest Door Co., Inc. (Tacoma); Tree stumps--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Senator-elect Harry P. Cain and wife Marjorie making dinner conversation during a banquet given in their honor by their Interlaaken neighbors at Clover Park High School. The school's Home Economics department served a "delicious home cooked meal" on November 15, 1946. Cain is seated second from the left; his wife is second from the right. ALBUM 13.

Mayors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Cain, Harry P., 1906-1979; Banquets;

JoAnn B. (Mrs. Rush E.) Stouffer and her baby daughter smile happily for the camera in this December, 1946, home portrait.

Mothers & children--Tacoma--1940-1950; Stouffer, JoAnn B.; Stouffer, Rush E.--Family; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Infants--Tacoma--1940-1950; Portraits;

Henry A. Wallace tells a crowd of 3000 and a radio audience that a Communist "is a Democrat with a job a Republican wants" at a campaign rally at the State Armory. Mr. Wallace, VP 1941-45, called on Democrats to close ranks and elect progressive representatives in the upcoming November 5th election. Although he had been asked to resign his Secretary of Commerce post by President Truman just a month before, Mr. Wallace still considered himself to be a Democrat. The 3000 in attendance was the largest turnout in the county so far in that current campaign; a number of Republican party workers were seen among the audience that evening. Henry Wallace went on to make an unsuccessful run for the presidency in 1948 as a candidate of the Progressive Party. (T. Times, 10-29-46, p. 1) ALBUM 2.

Political elections--Tacoma--1940-1950; Public speaking--Tacoma; Wallace, Henry A., 1888-1965;

Henry A. Wallace with supporters during a Democratic campaign visit to Tacoma. He is standing second to the left, holding a pair of reading glasses and a newspaper in his hands. 3000 braved the inclement weather and a bus strike to make their way to the State Armory to hear Mr. Wallace call on loyal Democrats to close ranks and elect progressive Democrats in the upcoming election. He especially praised U.S. Senator Hugh B. Mitchell who was seeking re-election. Henry Wallace was the U.S. Vice-President, 1941-45, former Secretary of Agriculture and briefly Secretary of Commerce. He became the candidate of the (Third) Progressive Party for President in 1948. Sepia photograph taken on October 28, 1946. (T. Times, 10-29-46, p. 1) ALBUM 2.

Political elections--Tacoma--1940-1950; Wallace, Henry A., 1888-1965;

Commander Walter Reierson with the US Navy Reserve smokes his corn-cob pipe while discussing matters with his assistant, Lt. J.T. Hundley. Commander Reierson is in charge of the Tacoma annex of the Naval Supply Depot. It was located in what had been Mueller-Harkins airport. The base handled surplus materials at an average of $2 million of goods per month. (T.Times, 10/24/1946, p.2)

Reierson, Walter; Hundley, J.T.; United States Navy;