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Yelm High School coach with "M'Loud Brothers." Likely shot on the same day as Fife High School game.

Annie Wright Seminary, Tacoma, W.T.

This is the original Annie Wright Seminary designed by architects Boone & Meeker as it appeared circa 1886. The private school for girls opened two years before in September of 1884, thanks to its benefactor, Charles B. Wright. The building's foundation came from Wilkeson stone and brick. Its sharp gables and turrets added to the impressive ediface. A gymnasium was added in 1899 and was the sole remaining building left when the school was razed in 1924. Due to growing enrollment, a new campus arose at 827 Tacoma Ave. N. the same year.

Washington College, Tacoma, W.T.

Finishing touches were being put on the newly built Washington College building at 714 Tacoma Ave. So. Thanks to the generosity of Charles B. Wright, money had been donated to start the private school for boys, the male equivalent of Annie Wright Seminary. It opened on September 2, 1886, with an enrollment of 65 boys, half of them day students. The Depression of 1892-93 forced many students to leave and the school closed in 1892. This building later served as the Tacoma High School from 1898 to 1906 when the high school moved to the remodeled Tourist Hotel at N. 1st & E Streets. It was later demolished in the summer of 1912 to make way for the new Central School Building and the site address changed to 601 So. 8th St.

Tacoma High School Class of 1900 with faculty

Members of the Tacoma High School faculty and the senior class, class of 1900, posed on the porch and steps of the school then located at 714 Tacoma Avenue South. The site was the former location of the Washington College, private school for boys. Two students have been identified in the photograph: George (or Georgia) Armstrong and Roy Knapp. Roy Knapp is seated in the second row of steps, second from left, next to an unidentified female. He was the business manager in 1899-1900 for the "Tahoma," the monthly publication of the Tacoma High School students and would pass away in 1906. Two cadets sit on the step railings. They are holding their distinctive hats and appear to be wearing similar clothing, i.e. uniforms. Cadets would participate in drills and would have an armory prepared for their use. KING 012, TPL 1038.

Central School

This is the original Central School, built in 1883 for $18,000 and located at 1114 S Altheimer (then S G St), now the area of Bates Technical College. It was modeled after the Euclid Avenue School of Cleveland, Ohio, by architect Joseph Sherwin of Portland. It stood out along the Tacoma skyline with its 90-foot bell tower visible for miles. The school contained twelve rooms and was considered a showplace for the city. Rapid growth made the enrollment climb to 964 by 1886, taught by a staff of 18 teachers. Remodeling and additions to the school occurred before the school moved its 1000 elementary students to a new Central School located at So. 8th & Tacoma Ave. So. in 1913. The new Central School cost $165,000, almost ten times the cost of the original school. The old Central School was demolished in 1914 and served as a hobo shelter for a few months prior to its demolition. (Olsen: For the Record, p. 47-48-various photographs) King 009, TPL 1103.


Back of photo:
Central school, S.W. corner of S.W. and G. St now the Bates Vocational School Tacoma, Wash.

RSO-07

Mount Tahoma High School photo with female student wearing a custom sweater with Samish style folk art embroidery.

RSO-27

Diverse group of schoolchildren posing next to buses in front of the First Assembly of God Church.

T-13

"Bow & arrows made by Nisqually Lake, 1855. Mr. Bonney, Myron Johnson, A. Scharf, 10/27/1936." Students outside of brick building with large white columns.

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No you're not seeing double; in February of 1936, Naval Avenue School in Bremerton boasted of 8 sets of twins, more twins than any other institution in the city of comparable size. Four sets of twins were enrolled in the first grade. Pictured, left to right with one sitting and other standing, are Tillie and Clifford Williams, Phillip and Phyllis Thornton, Adrian and Allen Mathews, Dorothy and Donna Misz, Teddy and Richard Holland, Dorothy and Donald Davis, Norene and Arlene Crites and Hollis and Wallace Erwin. For Bremerton Sun. (filed with Argentum) (Bremerton Sun 2/20/1936, pg. 1)


School children--Bremerton--1930-1940; Classrooms--Bremerton--1930-1940; Twins; Naval Avenue School (Bremerton);

R-15

ca. 1934. Staff of the 1934 "Tamanawas," group portrait in front of Jones Hall, College of Puget Sound. Front row: Dorothy Foxwell, Phyllis Swanson, Gertrude Davis, Annabel Biggle, Eunice Perkins, Maurine Henderson and Harriet Rosenzweig. Back row: Howard Clifford, Carl Faulk, Jack Slatter, Fred Stockbridge, Richard Poole, Woodard. Not pictured are editor Delmore Martin and Business Manager Richard Zehnder. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)


College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--Group portraits--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Tacoma;

R-18

ca. 1934. Campus Day 1934 at the College of Puget Sound. Campus Day is the time set aside for the annual general spring campus cleanup. Pictured are a group of student workers enjoying the free lunch served by the Spurs in Howarth Hall after the annual frosh-soph tug-of-war contest. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)


College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Tacoma;

R-22

ca. 1934. Girls freshman baseball nine won the annual baseball tournament in 1934, defeating the sophomores 18 to 9. Front row: Perkins, Davis, Ida Larson (captain), Hagberg. Back row: Fulton, Giske, Beerbohm, Hanson, Ramsby. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)


College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Baseball players--Tacoma--1930-1940;

S18-1

The boys of Saint Patrick's beat Visitation, Holy Rosary, Sacred Heart, and Saint Leo's to win the Parochial Basketball League title in 1936. Only the last names of the players on St. Patrick's team were listed in the Tacoma Times when this photograph was published on March 13, 1936. They were: (l to r, standing) Burkehouse, Kroha, Haaker, King (the manager) and Giannelli; (l to r, seated) Weaver, Wonder, Realey and DesMaris.


Church schools--Tacoma; St. Patrick's Parochial School (Tacoma); Basketball players--Tacoma--1930-1940; School children--1930-1940;

S2-1

College of Puget Sound Summer Class, July 1935. Portland Area School of Ministerial Training. (WSHS)


College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1930-1940;

S30-1

ca. 1936. College of Puget Sound Choral Society leaving on bus tour of the state. Large group of boys and girls in and beside Washington Motor Coach System double-decker bus. (filed with Argentum)


College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Choirs (Music); Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

S56-3

Stanley School 6A Class in June of 1937. The students pose in front of the original school, which opened in 1925.


School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Group portraits; Stanley Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; Education--Tacoma;

S57-2

Cast of Robert Gray Junior High play. Six girls and four boys in period costume on school steps; photograph was taken in June, 1937. The girl on the farthest left, rear, has been tentatively identified as Leah Kelley.


Gray Junior High School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; Theatrical productions--Tacoma--1930-1940;

S60-3

Cast of play at McCarver Junior High. Many students in nautical or ethnic costume, including several Japanese-American girls in kiminos, are serenaded by a string quartet. Teachers look on.


Public schools--Tacoma; McCarver Junior High School (Tacoma); Theatrical productions--1930-1940; Costumes;

D874-8

Stadium vs. Lincoln Thanksgiving Day football game in Stadium Bowl, November 25, 1937. Stadium High School marching band and drill team form what appears to be the letters "IN" on the football field. The goal post, Commencement Bay, and Browns Point are visible in the background. (T. Times 11/26/1937, pg. 1)


Football--Tacoma; Athletic fields--Tacoma; Students--Tacoma; Events--Tacoma; Stadium High School (Tacoma); Lincoln High School (Tacoma); Stadium Bowl (Tacoma); Marching bands;

D751-2

Mrs. Lorraine W. Pike, 6-A teacher at Horace Mann school, 5234 South J Street, worked with Gordon Brunswick (left) and Stanley Nelson on the model German village that their class was building in April of 1937. The highly detailed model, with thatched-roofed buildings and tiny villagers was built by the class to help them visualize what life was like in Germany in 410 A.D. (T. Times, 4/1/1937 p.3).


Horace Mann School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; Pike, Lorraine; Nelson, Stanley; Brunswick, Gordon; Models; Miniature cities & towns; Model ships;

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College of Puget Sound vs. University of British Columbia football game at Stadium Bowl. Players on field, Commencement Bay in background.


Colleges and Universities - Tacoma - University of Puget SoundColleges and Universities - Canada - British Columbia - Burnaby - University of British Columbia Sports - Ball Games - Football Facilities - Stadiums - Stadium Bowl

D1408-1

Lincoln High School 1937 Graduation Ceremonies at the Armory. Straight on view of crowd and stage.


Lincoln High School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; Graduation ceremonies--Tacoma--1930-1940; State Armory (Tacoma);

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