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McLean's Lyon Van Lines truck delivering new, crated Magic Chef gas stoves to the Lauan Apartments, 818 So. 11th St. Truck is backed-up to door and two men are moving a crated stove off the tailgate of the truck. The Lauan had ordered 64 of the new gas stoves. (WSHS) (TDL 1/12/1936, pg. 6-B advertisement)


Lauan Apartments (Tacoma); Apartment houses--Tacoma--1930-1940; McLeans Van Lines (Tacoma); Stoves; Appliances;

1A3-1

On the last day of January 1936, workers from McLean's, Tacoma operators of Lyon Van Lines, were busy moving new Magic Chef gas ranges into the Rialto Apartments. The apartment owners had ordered 50 of the new ranges. 34 of the crated stoves were lined up on 9th Street. The moving truck is parked on hill with its door open to the building entrance. The photograph was used in an advertisement for Washington Gas & Electric Co., promoting gas for cooking. Photograph ordered by Mr. Goff. (WSHS) (TDL 2/2/1936, pg. B-6)


Apartment Houses--Tacoma--1930-1940; Rialto Apartments (Tacoma); Stoves; Appliances;

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On the last day of January 1936, workers from McLean's, Tacoma operators of Lyon Van Lines, were busy moving new Magic Chef gas ranges into the Rialto Apartments. The apartment owners had ordered 50 of the new ranges. 34 of the crated stoves were lined up on 9th Street. The moving truck is parked on hill with its door open to the building entrance. The photograph was used in an advertisement for Washington Gas & Electric Co., promoting gas for cooking. Photograph ordered by Mr. Goff. (WSHS) (TDL 2/2/1936, pg. B-6)


Apartment Houses--Tacoma--1930-1940; Rialto Apartments (Tacoma); Stoves; Appliances;

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ca. 1936. Elevated view of Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan with entrance on So. 11th Street. Building is divided by modernized lower floors and the 19th century facade of Equitable Bldg. on upper floors. Original structure dates from 1891, Proctor & Dennis, architects. Crown Drug located in Pacific Ave. storefront. (WSHS)


Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan Association (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma; Pacific First Federal Building (Tacoma); Crown Drugs (Tacoma);

1A4-2

ca. 1936. Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan with entrance on So. 11th Street. Building is divided by modernized lower floors and the 19th century facade of Equitable Bldg. on upper floors. Original structure dates from 1891, Proctor & Dennis, architects. Crown Drug located in Pacific Ave. storefront. (Argentum)


Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan Association (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma; Pacific First Federal Building (Tacoma); Crown Drugs (Tacoma);

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ca. 1936. Elevated view of Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan with entrance on So. 11th Street. Building is divided by modernized lower floors and the 19th century facade of Equitable Bldg. on upper floors. Crown Drug located in Pacific Ave. storefront. (WSHS)


Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan Association (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma; Pacific First Federal Building (Tacoma); Crown Drugs (Tacoma);

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ca. 1936. Man standing in front of crated appliances delivered to the President Apartments, an old Classical-style wooden building, by Smarts Auto Freight Co., Inc. Worker moves crates from truck tailgate into front door of building, fire escape railing above. The crates contain new gas stoves for the apartments. Smarts Auto Freight was owned by L.V. Smart and located at 1536 Commerce. Photograph used as advertising by the Washington Gas Co. (Argentum)


Smarts Auto Freight Co. (Tacoma); President Apartments (Tacoma); Stoves; Appliances; Trucks--1930-1940;

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ca. 1936. Man standing in front of appliance crates delivered to the President Apartments, an old Classical-style wooden building, by Smarts Auto Freight Co., Inc. Worker moves crates from truck tailgate into front door of building, fire escape railing above. The crates contain new gas stoves for the apartments. Smarts Auto Freight was owned by L.V. Smart and located at 1536 Commerce. Photograph used as advertising by the Washington Gas Co. (WSHS)


Smarts Auto Freight Co. (Tacoma); President Apartments (Tacoma); Stoves; Appliances; Trucks--1930-1940;

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The Tacoma Better Home Exposition held at the Armory March 30- April 6, 1935. Tacoma's first federal housing exposition was designed to show Southwest Washington just what could be done under the federal housing act, which encouraged home modernization and new construction. Over 50 exhibitors from across the country contributed. This particular exhibit was sponsored by Pacific First Federal Savings and Loan Association and the Tacoma Society of Architects. It offers information on home loans- to buy, build or remodel and refinancing. Of special interest is the model home in the glass case built by then 13 year old budding architect Alan Liddle. Alan was the son of Abram and Myrtle Liddle at 821 No. Steele. We have the senior Liddle's occupation listed as real estate, mortgage loans, insurance and rentals. Alan Liddle went on to study architecture and returned to Tacoma to set up his firm. He has won many awards for his original Northwest homes. (TDL 3/31/1935, pg. 1; T.Times 4/1/1935, pg. 8-9)


Liddle, Alan C.--Associated objects; Architects; Architectural models; Exhibitions--Tacoma--1930-1940; Events--Tacoma--1930-1940; State Armory (Tacoma); Tacoma Better Home Exposition (Tacoma);

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Large sales booth sponsored by Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan Association and the Tacoma Society of Architects with displays of house plans under signage: "Buy, Build, Remodel, Refinance." The Tacoma Better Home Exposition was held at the Armory March 30- April 6, 1935. Tacoma's first federal housing exposition was designed to show Southwest Washington just what could be done under the federal housing act, which encouraged home modernization and new construction. Over 50 exhibitors from across the country contributed. (TDL 3/31/1935, pg. 1; T.Times 4/1/1935, pg. 8-9) (Argentum)


Exhibitions--Tacoma--1930-1940; Events--Tacoma--1930-1940; State Armory (Tacoma); Tacoma Better Home Exposition (Tacoma);

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ca. 1936. Opening of new, small restaurant with counter and tables. Space in older building with elaborate wood and leaded glass cabinetry, tin ceiling, and arcaded windows with Corinthian columns. Large, uniformed staff standing at designated stations. Probably Feeney's Cafe. Feeney's was owned by Mrs. Jessie Feeney, Mrs. Viola Hinz and Irving Ball.


Feeney's Cafe (Tacoma); Restaurants--Tacoma--1930-1940; Restaurant workers--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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ca. 1936. Restaurant stove with burners, grill, and ovens. For Mr. Goff. In the same series as Feeney's Cafe and probably the same restaurant. (WSHS)


Stoves--1930-1940;

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In September of 1936, the Olympic Apartments, 304 Tacoma Ave S., received a full complement of new gas stoves. Broad view of entrance to Olympic Apartments with ten crated Magic Chef gas stoves stacked on sidewalk in front of building. The apartments were built in 1924 by Oscar F. Volk. Ordered by Mr. Goff. (TDL 9/13/1936, pg. B6) (WSHS)


Olympic Apartments (Tacoma); Apartments--Tacoma--1930-1940; Stoves; Appliances;

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ca. 1936. Large light brick minimal Federal or Colonial Revival style house. Sign on front "This House designed, built, financed by H.L.Schneider. Phone PR.3261-W."


Houses--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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ca. 1929. J. Clifford and M. Mae Haley house. Exterior view of three-story house and landscape. Wood-shingle house with cross-gable roof. Mature landscape includes ivy-covered exterior, trees and shrubs. Haley was co-founder of Brown & Haley, Inc. (candy company.) (WSHS)


Haley, J.C.--Homes & haunts;

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ca. 1929. J. Clifford and M. Mae Haley house. View of ivy covered entry and steps leading to house. George W. Bullard, architect, 1906. (WSHS)


Haley, J.C.--Homes & haunts;

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ca. 1890. Copy of an old photograph ordered by Virginia Rosch. The photograph is of a woman and a small boy in front of the Bay View Hotel and Restaurant. The sign for the restaurant reads "Open Day and Night." (WSHS)


Rosch, Virginia--Associated objects;

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Copy photograph of interior of office of P.J. Rosch, attorney at law. From the personal collection of Virginia Rosch. (WSHS)


Law offices;

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Copy of an old photograph on an unidentified home, ordered by Walt Mika. (WSHS)


Mika, Walt--Homes & haunts;

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ca. 1931. Mrs. Alice Rector Watson's gardens. The property was originally owned by her grandfather, Augustus Walters, who built the house shown here in 1888 from a design by architect K. Lockwood Squire. The home has since been demolished. Dense, mature landscape. Street view of property. (WSHS)


Gardens--Tacoma; Watson, Alice--Homes & haunts; Walters, Augustus--Homes & haunts;

2211-1

Copy photograph of the Hoover family, couple with six children, four boys and two girls. (WSHS)


Families;

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ca. 1891. This portrait of Elisha P. Ferry, first Governor of Washington State, was taken circa 1891. On October 1, 1889, Washington voters ratifed the state's first constitution by a four to one majority. Republican Elisha P. Ferry (1825-1895), former lawyer and mayor, was elected governor. He served from 1889-1893. President Ulysses S. Grant had appointed Ferry governor of territorial Washington in 1872 and he was the only territorial governor to be appointed a second term. Ferry County in the northeastern corner of the state was named for the governor in 1899. (www.secstate.wa.gov/history; Washington HistoryLink.org)


Ferry, Elisha P., 1825-1895; Governors--Washington (State);

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ca. 1890. This portrait of Frank C. Ross was taken in 1891, the year he sold the Tacoma and Lake City Railroad to the Union Pacific Railroad for $153,000. His top hat, double breasted Prince Albert, light overcoat, boutonniere and mutton chop whiskers were typical dress for an affluent businessman of the period. The Tacoma railroad operated from North 25th Street & Union to Lake City. Union Pacific proposed to extend the line from Portland to the Canadian border in exchange for concessions from Tacoma, such as city right of way, land for terminals and waterfrontage for warehouses and docks for their Pacific Mail ships. The Union Pacific sold the Tacoma line to John S. Baker and Robert Wingate whose attempts to keep the railroad afloat failed. They stopped operations in 1897. Mr. Ross celebrated his 80th birthday on March 3, 1938. He was still championing the development of the Tideflats that he had proposed 50 years before. Copy made for T.Times columnist E. T. Short, June of 1936. (T. Times 6/11/1936, pg. 5; T. Times 3/21/1938, pg. 5)


Ross, Frank C.; Tacoma & Lake City Railroad (Tacoma); Men--Clothing & dress--Tacoma--1890-1900;

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ca. 1910. Copy of a customer's photograph of the North Pacific Bank Note Company staff, circa 1910, in front of company's office at 1012 1/2 A St. Immediately to the right is J.N. Barrett, printer. (1005 A St.) (WSHS)


North Pacific Bank Note Co. (Tacoma);

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ca. 1900. Copy of image Series 2215 image 1 pinned to a board: North Pacific Bank Note Company staff. Group of men in front of building. Copy of customer's photograph. (filed with Argentum)


North Pacific Bank Note Co. (Tacoma);

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Copy photograph of man with goatee, perhaps, Henry Villard who was prominent in Tacoma's Northern Pacific Railroad history. (WSHS)


Portraits;

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ca. 1931. Alice Watson's gardens. Top floor of a house can be seen through trees. (Argentum, filed with H)


Gardens--Tacoma; Watson, Alice--Homes & haunts; Walters, Augustus--Homes & haunts;

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ca. 1934. Illustrated Historical Map of Washington up to 1889. Designed and Drawn by Ralph Bishop of Tacoma.


Maps;

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Copy of Birds-eye view of Camp Ford, Texas. Image includes: South view, West view, Confederate Hospital, Headquarters of Col. R. R. Brown, and Capt. Braunfelter's cabin. Camp Ford started out as a training camp for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Toward the end of the war, it had become the largest Confederate prison camp for Union soldiers west of the Mississippi. The Camp was located in northeast Texas, near Tyler. (WSHS)


Camp Ford (Texas);

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