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Cobbler at sole stitching machine in a work coat.
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Cobbler at sole stitching machine in a work coat.
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Fort Lewis buffet featuring fruit salad, dips, cake and a large roast.
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Ft. Lewis Training Center group portrait. Soldiers are holding up a painted wooden sign saying, "Bravo Bums."
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Group of Japanese American soldiers standing in an auditorium. There is a no smoking sign and a smoking room pictured in the background.
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Soldiers wearing tear gas masks and long brimmed hats walking through a fog.
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"The Four Horseman, Capt. C.W. Van Rooy"
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"Medical Detachment, 148th Field Artillery - Major Wood, C.O. Camp Norway, 1931."
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"Japanese Americans Eating Meal." Uniformed Japanese American Army members eating bento boxes with other soldiers. Unlabeled soda bottles and tea cups are on the table.
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Crown gathered around man speaking in front of industrial architecture. In the distance, a man appears to be installing a utility pole.
ca. 1908. Battleships in what is probably Commencement Bay - off Tacoma with the tree covered cliffs of Browns Point in the background.
ca. 1910. Cannon emplacement probably at Fort Casey,Whidbey Island, Washington.
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"Camp Hankens - 1935." Group of soldiers pose with tents in the background.
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"Camp Hankens - 1935." Group of soldiers pose with tents in the background.
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"Co.1 - 186th infantry - Camp Hankens - 1935, Capt. Anderson, C.O." Group of soldiers pose with tents in the background.
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"Co.1 - 186th infantry - Camp Hankens - 1935, Capt. Anderson, C.O." Group of soldiers pose with tents in the background.
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Military Band plays outdoors with two tubas and a flute. Tents and coniferous trees are pictured in the background.
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Army officers pose in a line to get food outside. Cooks hold wooden buckets and a plate of doughnuts.
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Three Army officers balancing on a horse with other officers looking on. Men in suits also watch from a covered areas in the distance.
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Army officers pose in front of the Mess Hall, taking plates of pie from the tray of a cook. Sign in the background reads, "1418 MESS ENL. MEN."
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Young men "chow down" in the Camp Murray Mess Hall during the July 1934 Citizen's Military Training Camp (CMTC). at Camp Murray. They sit at picnic style tables eating, among other things, mashed potatoes and gravy, bread and pie. The camp was a combined training for the CMTC, ROTC and Officers' Reserve Corps. 68 of the 127 boys in CMTC were in camp for the first time. They were assigned to Company K in the infantry. The remainder were divided into Red, White and Blue groups in infantry and field artillery. The boys came from a radius of 100 miles of Ft. Lewis. The ROTC was composed of 79 students from Pacific Northwest Universities. (T. Times 7/13/1934, pg. 1)
Citizens Military Training Camp--Tacoma; Camp Murray (Wash.); Washington National Guard (Tacoma); Military camps--Tacoma--1930-1940;
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Troop B demonstrates some trick riding at Camp A. H. Hankins, the 1935 Washington National Guard encampment at Camp Murray. Three soldiers are head and shoulders above the rest on a single horse as they pose one atop another. Troop B is actually designated as the Headquarters Troop, 24th Cavalry Division, Washington National Guard and it is the oldest military organization in the state. Around 8,000 citizen soldiers from the Northwest took part in the 15 day training. (T. Times 6/12/1935, pg. 1)
Camp Murray (Wash.); Military personnel--1930-1940; Horseback riding; Horses; Washington National Guard, 24th Cavalry Division (Tacoma);
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Army Day at Fort Lewis. Staff Sergeant H. E. Etheridge, 91st Air Squadron, explains to Leona Schuck of Olympia how the 30-caliber rear flexible machine gun fires 1200 rounds of ammunition per minute. (T.Times, 4/6/1938, p.1).
Arms & armament--Tacoma--1930-1940; Artillery (Weaponry); Fort Lewis (Wash.); Etheridge, H.E.; Schuck, Leona; Fighter planes--1930-1940; Machine guns;
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Army Day at Fort Lewis. Rear Admiral E. B. Fenner, Naval Commander at Bremerton, Brigadier General T. E. Merrill, Fort Lewis Commander, Colonel Francis W. Clark, and the commanders' aides return salutes to the 13 guns honoring the naval visitor.
Fort Lewis (Wash.); Fenner, E.B.; Merrill, T.E.; Clark, Francis W.; Saluting;
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Washington National Guard 1936 encampment. Mock retreat. Comic group of soldiers in mock drill . Wooden buildings and tents in background. The Washington National Guard's annual encampment took place in the last 2 weeks of June, 1936. Given a different honorary name each year, the 1936 camp was named "Camp Wesley Lloyd" after the late Congressman. The first week was plagued with the heaviest rain since 1931.
Washington National Guard (Tacoma); Camp Murray (Wash.); Military personnel--1930-1940;
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National Guard Review. Spokane Company, Photography Division. Soldiers developing photographic prints in a photo lab.
Washington National Guard (Tacoma); Photographic apparatus & supplies; Photographic studios; Darkrooms;
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Members of the 116th Observation Squadron of the Washington National Guard lean over a desk observing film strips. To the right is Lt. Ellsworth C. French, commander of the section. The Squadron is made up of photographers and lab technicians who use photographic methods to gather information for the Guard.
Washington National Guard, 116th Observation Squadron (Tacoma); Camp Murray (Wash.); Military personnel--1930-1940; Photographic apparatus & supplies;
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Military parade at the 1934 Washington National Guard encampment at Camp Murray, the "Camp Draper," featuring covered wagons pulled by horses. Included in the 1934 roster of the Wa. Nat'l. Guard were 32 animals.
Camp Murray (Wash.); Military personnel; Washington National Guard (Wash.); Horses; Covered wagons;
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Cannons and men in field at the Washington National Guard training encampment at Camp Murray. The 1934 exercises were named Camp Draper in honor of Major Sylvester Draper, former Inspector General of the Guard. (filed with Argentum)
Camp Murray (Wash.); Military personnel; Washington National Guard (Wash.); Arms & armament--1930-1940; Covered wagons;
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ca. 1934. Congressional Inspection at Fort Lewis. Group portrait of men, including Army officers, and women on the brick steps of multi-doored, colonnaded building. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma Times. (WSHS)
Fort Lewis (Wash.); Military facilities--Wash.;