Wyatt Enger building in Seattle.

Baker products at a market displaying various brands from the mid-fifties.

Pre-wedding photos of Mr. and Mrs. Walt Coy with Mr. Cole putting a painted tie in his mouth.

Boitono-Ennis wedding photo with couple looking at ring and crucifix in the background.

Yasuda-Miyamoto wedding photo of the couple inside of a vehicle with plaid interior seating.

Ice Skater Patsy Baker and the Bob Richards demonstrating how to pose inside of the studio.

Boitono-Ennis wedding photo of two children in purple dresses holding flower arrangements.

Yasuda-Miyamoto wedding photo of bride and groom cutting the cake with floral arrangements, fruit bowl and 7-Up bottle in the background.

Olympic Apartments exterior with new gas stoves.

Asian American Fife High School football player

Asian American Fife High School football player

Banquet with large group in unidentified dining hall.

Penn Salt banquet in unidentified meeting hall. Overhead perspective captures floral sign.

Ace Electric Co. Building exterior with wooden ladder and dirt road.

Residential house built on industrial shoreline.

Garage or carriage house with Tudor style roof.

Distant view of laborers on a shipyard. Spiked exterior wall can be seen on the left with mountains faintly in the distance.

Dockside shipyard materials with an ad for Drifted Snow "Home Perfected" Flour on the side of a building. There also appears to be some industrial architecture from the Port of Tacoma in the distance.

Side view of the Henry Mill & Timber Co. building with smoke pluming in the background. A more rustic wooden structure, crane and frame under construction are in the foreground.

Two men in suits and hats observe a laborer move lumber along a series of rollers outside.

"Spokane singing group, ARION,German." Members shake hands as man and woman hold up fabric flag.

"Edward Hynes, Egyptologist holding statuette, 3000 yrs. Old, 11/21/1936."

Young boy wearing band uniform watches older man playing tuba. Steilacoom Band drum placed between the two musicians. (T.Times 7/31/1936 p.16)

Marching bands--Steilacoom; Musical instruments; Musicians--Steilacoom--1930-1940;

One of the crews of ironworkers who built the second Narrows bridge. In top row, second from left: Art Knowll, fourth from left: Ray Seets, front row middle: Clarence Foster "Marty" Martin.

Armand J. "Frenchie" LaFramboise and his secretary Ottilie Markholt were photographed on March 27, 1943 in his office at the Metal Trades Council. The Metal Trades Council was the negotiating body for all the unions involved in working with metal, such as the shipyards. On April 1, 1943, Mr. LaFramboise became the Labor-relations Director at the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. yards in Tacoma. Ottilie Markholt continued to work for the union; she later became a noted historian of Pierce County's labor movement and was the author of several books on the subject including "Maritime Solidarity - Pacific Coast Unionism, 1929-1938." (T.Times 3/27/1943) TPL-412

Markholt, Ottilie; LaFramboise, Armand; Labor unions--Tacoma--1940-1950; Metal Trades Council (Tacoma);

In April of 1943, the Treasury T flag was presented to the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma yard. It would wave at the entrance of the plant, right below the American flag, proving that the employees were true patriots. The flag was awarded to defense companies where 90 % of the employees invested at least 10% of their salaries in war bonds. Displaying the flag shortly after its presentation are Karl Richards, standing left, state war savings director, and George F. Kachlein, Jr., assistant general manger, kneeling left, to workers Harold Morgan, Cliff Dodson and Al Elgner. (Sea-Tac Keel, Vol.1, No.7; May 8, 1943, pg. 2)

Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); War bonds & funds; Awards; World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects of war--Tacoma; Kachlein, George; Morgan, Harold; Dodson, Cliff; Elgner, Al;

Karl Richards, left, state war savings staff director, congratulates Bert O'Hiser, center, for his purchase of a $1,000 war savings bond and commends his support of the men in the armed services. Assistant general manager of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma yard, George F. Kachlein, Jr. observes from right. Mr. Richards was at the Sea-Tac Shipyard to present the employees with a Treasury T flag in late April of 1943. (Sea-Tac Keel, Vol.1, No.7; May 8, 1943, pg.2)

Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); War bonds & funds; Awards; World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects of war--Tacoma; O'Hiser, Bert; Kachlein, George;

In late April of 1943, George F Kachlein Jr., left, accepted the Treasury T flag for the workers of the Tacoma yard of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. from Karl Richards. He solemnly promised to keep the flag flying high. The flag was given by the Treasury department to recognize defense companies where 90 % of employees contributed 10% of their salaries to the purchase of war bonds. (Sea-Tac Keel, Vol. 1 No. 7; May 8, 1943, pg. 2)

Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); War bonds & funds; Awards; World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects of war--Tacoma; Kachlein, George;

Motorcade led by 1923 Lincoln Touring automobile containing Governor Arthur Langlie and the Earl of Athlone, Governor-General and Commander in Chief of Canada and husband of HRH Princess Alice, with Army and Naval Officers at the Seattle-Tacoma Shipyards. The Earl, with his wife in another vehicle, was touring the shipyards in order to see the escort aircraft carriers being built. He was Alexander, the 1st Earl of Athlone, and brother of Queen Mary. A graduate of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, the Earl had seen action in the South African War and the First World War. He changed his surname from Teck to Cambridge in 1917, the year his title, 1st Earl of Athlone, was created. (T.Times 5-4-43, p. 6, T. Times 5-5-43, p. 1) ALBUM 3.

Langlie, Arthur B., 1900-1966; Governors; Visits of state--Tacoma; Nobility--England; Alexander, Earl of Athlone; Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma);