Oral history interview of Ben Brooks conducted on February 25th, 2023, as part of the Archiving South Tacoma Communities event located at the South Tacoma Branch

Backside of photo contains text:
Top row: - Laura Jensen, Jolyon Raymond, Jeff Perkins, Kristina Berg, Parker Estvold, Jimmy Stevens
2nd Row:- Jim Braun, Vernon Farour, Jim Broneu, Mark Lackey, Danny Mann, Carolyn Bruno
3rd Row:- Dail Fidler, Carrie Shark, Jim Johnson, Ken Birkley, Randy Malanca, Jimmy Mockner
2nd Row:- Pamela Miller, Judy Wheeler, Helen Sorlie, Linda Hopkins, Diane Johnson, Archie Brooking
1st Row:- Christy Breusaugh, Brenda Eggens, Paul Brotman, Mike Edmundson, Kathy Buckmiller
Teacher:- Juanita (Caper) Carlson

Back of photo:
a paint made from one of mother's "Treasures Box" pictures with love nell Lindstrom Richards

Will LuidsFrownsi(?) son (mimi's brother eldest)
mimi's nephew (chester)

Chester N. Lindstrom
Ida's eldest son (Ida son)

The following description is provided by Shatara Baker

In this photo:

6 year old ShaTara Baker who is currently enrolled at The Evergreen State College Tacoma, pursuing her degree in Organizational Leadership in Urban Studies and Public Affairs.

The memory behind this photo:

I received my report card this year in hand, at 6. When I read it I was confused because it listed my race as white. When my mother explained why she said, "the have racial quotas they have to make, and we couldn't enroll you because there were too many black kids already; we had to prove that you are a percentage of white"

Part of a series of photos taken during the Daffodil Parade in April 2000.
Backside of photo contains text:
Rick and Skye
Jr. Daffodil Parade
April 8, 2000

When taken: 1969.
Where taken: 4016 North 14th. Tacoma WA, 98406 (?)
Who is in these photographs: Theodore Jonas Jensen 1902-1989 (Born in Whatcom county, WA)
What memories are contained in these photos: Polaroid Swinger Photo 1969 by Laura L. Jensen
Theodore J Jensen, on 24th Street, 1951-1989 - replaced furnace that burned coal with an electric furnace in 1969.

Backside of photograph contains text: Jensen 1969 Theodore

When taken: A print of a word document
Where taken: Tacoma
Who is in this photograph: Description is list of contents of CD - A transfer from cassette 1978.

What memory is contained in this photo: (No CD was transfered to digital) cassette was transferred to CD by PLU archives for me to have - during a CD transfer project.

About Linnea Gord Jensen, written by Laura Jensen:
"Linnea Gord Jensen was a talented piano player who began lessons in 1910, age 9. She began accompaniment with the Order of Runeberg Choir tour to Finland in 1930. She became the O.R. Choir director in 1934 when their director retired. With the PTA in 1953 she accompanied the Mothersingers, directed by Margaret McGregor, a piano teacher from the Proctor Neighborhood. Linnea Gord Jensen continued with Mothersingers, then with a different women's choir, The Trebleaires, directed by Mrs. Margaret Beddoes. Linnea Gord Jensen also had been a secretary from 1930 to 1945 and volunteered time in the 1950s as a mimeograph worker, she did a newsletter for the Kindergarten called Pitter Patter News. She mimeographed the yearly PTA Information booklets".