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Scenic view of Mount Rainier with the Pierce County Court House on the left and the old courthouse on the right.
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Scenic view of Mount Rainier with the Pierce County Court House on the left and the old courthouse on the right.
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Printed on front: Armory and Court House, Tacoma, Wash 611.
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Printed on front: The State Armory Showing Court House, Tacoma, Wash.
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Printed on front: No. 6 State Armory, Tacoma, Washington
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Printed on front: The State Armory and Court House, Tacoma, U.S.A.
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Interior of First Presbyterian Church, circa 1913.
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Printed on front: First Presbyterian Church, Tacoma, Wash.
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Current location of Tacoma Public Library's Main Branch with the Armory and Courthouse in the background. Printed on front: Carnegie Library, Court House and State Armory, Tacoma, Wn.
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Current location of Tacoma Public Library's Main Branch. Printed on front: Public Library and Court House, Tacoma, Washington.
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Current location of Tacoma Public Library's Main Branch. Printed on front: Public Library also showing Court House, Tacoma, Wash.
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Current location of Tacoma Public Library's Main Branch. Printed on front: Carnegie Public Library and Court House -- Tacoma, Wash.
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Printed on front: No. 7 State Armory, Tacoma, Washington.
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Printed on front: 1132 - The Armory and Courthouse, Tacoma, Washington
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Printed on front: Pierce County Court House, Tacoma
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Printed on front: Pierce County C.H. (Courthouse), Tacoma, Wash.
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Printed on front: Pierce County Court House, Tacoma, Washington
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Printed on front: Pierce County Court House, Tacoma, Wash.
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Judge Waldo Stone, center, is seated in front of the Auditor's Office in this sepia photograph taken on July 1, 1954. There is a marriage licenses sign behind him indicating that office hours were from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The two men in the photograph with Judge Stone are T.J. "Pat" O'Brien and Armand R. Moceri of Sumner. Mr. Moceri would announce his candidacy for the 25th District state representative in August, 1954. Mr. O'Brien would seek election to the post of county accessor; he had been elected constable in 1950. (TNT 8-23-54, p. 9, TNT 9-5-54, A-2))
Stone, Waldo; Judges; O'Brien, T.J.; Moceri, Armand R.; Signs (Notices);
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Pierce County Courthouse. Three men sitting at tables in court room. This photograph was taken on November 26, 1951. On that day, one of the sessions at the Courthouse involved a decision by the Pierce County Commissioners whereby they voted to ban fireworks sale and use in the county except in supervised displays. Commissioner Harry Sprinker is possibly the first man at left. (TNT 11-26-51, p. 1-article)
Pierce County Courthouse (Tacoma);
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Republican candidates for 28th District. Because no G.O.P. candidates from the 28th District filed for the primary, Republican Central Committee chairman Clarence Sather had to persuade Elmer L. Eddy and Frank A. Glassy to run as "sticker" candidates. Voters would have to write their names in on the ballots in the November general election. Both men have labor ties; Eddy belongs to the boilermaker and barber unions and Glassy owns and operates Glassy Electric, a union shop. They will be opposing Democrats Arthur R. Paulsen and A. L. (Slim) Rasmussen. From left to right in the photograph are Don Perry, Supt. of Elections, Elmer L. Eddy, and Frank A. Glassy at the courthouse. (TNT 9-27-50, p. 12)
Political elections--Tacoma--1950-1960; Eddy, Elmer L.; Glassy, Frank A.; Perry, Don;
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Claude R. "Shorty" Doran (at right, holding a microphone), the Pierce County Agricultural Agent, and an unidentified man were photographed using a reel-to-reel tape recorder in Mr. Doran's office at the old County Court House, 1012 South G Street, on June 15, 1950. They were probably recording a program to be broadcast on KMO radio during the Farm Show which was on the air Monday through Friday at 12:45 p.m. "Shorty" Doran became the agricultural agent in 1949. He had been active in promoting dairy practices in Pierce County for several years, and as superintendent of the Dairy department of the Western Washington Fair had successfully developed an outstanding 4-H dairy program. ( Ordered by Llewelyn Advertising Agency.)
Pierce County Courthouse (Tacoma); Sound recordings; Communication devices;
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Three women switchboard operators at the switchboard at the Court House. The two women who are seated wear head sets with ear phones and microphones together. They are busy with the cords connecting and disconnecting phone calls. A 1950 calendar from Great Northern Railway hangs on the wall behind them. Ordered by Llewelyn Advertising Agency.
Pierce County Courthouse (Tacoma); Telephone switchboards--Tacoma; Telephone operators--Tacoma--1950-1960;
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The Pierce County Courthouse was built in 1892 and served for 70 years until it was abandoned and demolished following the construction of the current County-City Building on Tacoma Ave. Constructed at a cost of $743,000, the Romanesque building of Wilkeson and Pittsburgh grey freestone finished with Tenino bluestone was almost an exact duplicate of architect Henry Hobson Richardson's courthouse in Pittsburgh, Pa. The building was three stories and the central tower was 230 feet tall. The tower's clock, added in 1907, was four feet in diameter and faced on all four sides. The plans for the building included secret stairways, hideouts and a hanging room, reportedly used to hang two prisoners. The cathedral type building was demolished in 1959. (TNT'S "Tacoma Landmarks by Thompson" reprints from the TNT Calendars and Sunday Magazine")
Pierce County Courthouse (Tacoma); Historic buildings--Tacoma;
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In late November 1949 workers dismantled the upper 27 feet of the Pierce County Courthouse tower which had been severely damaged in the earthquake of April 13, 1949. The open part of the topmost part of the tower was taken down stone by stone, lowered to the ground with a specially built exterior elevator, and the stone was hauled away. This view from inside the tower, through the broken face of the clock once housed there, looks across Central School and downtown Tacoma towards Commencement Bay and Browns Point. The clock had a 10-foot face and the glass cover was about 3/8" thick. (TNT, 11/20/1949, p.A-5)
Pierce County Courthouse (Tacoma); Courthouses--Tacoma; Towers--Tacoma; Clocks & watches; Historic buildings--Tacoma; Earthquakes--Tacoma--1940-1950; Damage to property; Demolition--Tacoma--1940-1950;