Two skiers by five large speakers; April 24, 1935 ski tournament, Paradise.

Skiers--1930-1940; Skiing--1930-1940; Winter sports--1930-1940;

ca. 1935. A group of skiers pose on a mountain with coats and hats on. One is wearing his skis and holding poles. Another is holding their skis.

Skiers--1930-1940; Skiing--1930-1940; Winter sports--1930-1940; Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.); Snow;

ca. 1935. Three trucks with drivers parked in front of Davis Motor Truck Company. Davis Motor Co. manufactured Diamond T trucks. (filed with Argentum)

Davis Motor Truck Company (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Diamond T trucks;

A large crowd gathered on the campus of Pacific Lutheran College on May 1, 1935, to view the crowning of Thelma Daniels as Queen Thelma, Queen of the May. The ceremony was only the second May festival held at P.L.C. Governor Clarence D. Martin was on hand to crown the Queen. L to R, back: Louise Jackson, Virginia Davis, Governor Clarence Martin, Queen Thelma Daniels, Mildred Monson, Eleanor Hauke. In Front are Dickie Svare, crown bearer, and Marilyn Pflueger and Barbara Peterson, train bearers. Clarence D. Martin was governor from 1933 to 1941. (TNT 05-02-1935, p.1)

Pacific Lutheran College (Parkland); Martin, Clarence D., 1887-1955; Governors; Daniels, Thelma; May Day--Tacoma; Rites & Ceremonies--Tacoma; Festivals--Tacoma;

Indian Festival. Photograph ordered by the News Tribune. Girls in native American costumes pose in a grassy area, with the Puget Sound in the background. (filed with Argentum)

Costumes--Native American;

Public attending first concert of season. Gathering in lobby. Woman writing on pad of paper.

Concerts--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Public attending first concert of season.

Concerts--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Cropped close up of Tacoma Philharmonic conductor and founder Eugene Linden boarding the train for Salzburg, Austria. The 24 year old leader of Tacoma's symphony was the only choice for a full scholarship to the Salzburg Mozarteum Academy. This was the highest honor that could be conferred on a young American conductor. The scholarship was awarded by the International Institute of Education of New York City. The contest was open to all American conductors under the age of 30. During the seven week course of study, Linden would learn from famed conductors Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini and Felix Weingratner. In 1933 Linden, at 21, left a lucrative position as assistant conductor of the Portland Oregon Junior Symphony and hitchhiked to Tacoma to start his own orchestra. Unfortunately, his initial rehearsal announcement only drew two violinists and one cellist. Linden persevered, borrowing money and hitchhiking 170 miles from his Portland home for rehearsals. At the end of six arduous months, the 60 piece orchestra presented its first concert to an appreciative audience. The talented youngster with the musical background reaching back 12 generations had done what many more experienced could not, he created an orchestra in Tacoma. By 1936, he and the musicians were no longer making music for free. He had 55 professional musicians, all paid, and an extensive concert season. Mr. Linden's loyalty to creating music held the orchestra together during the war years. Tacoma was one of the few cities of her size able to retain her orchestra during the war. Mr. Linden went on in the late forties and early fifties to conduct the Seattle Symphony and found the Pacific Northwest Grand Opera Company. After the opera company's demise due to financial difficulties, he slipped from public view & never obtained the acclaim his earlier meteoric rise had indicated. He died in 1983 at the age of 70.(TNT 6/15/1936; TDL 4/23/1936)

Tacoma Philharmonic Orchestra (Tacoma); Linden, Eugene; Conductors; Arrivals & departures--Tacoma--1930-1940; Travel--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Two men working on the hull of sailboat moored on the beach. Concrete bulkhead, roadway, and hillside in background. Automobiles parked along the road include a truck from Covach Bros. grocery.

Boats--Tacoma; Beaches--Tacoma; Automobiles--Tacoma--1930-1940; Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Point Defiance Zoo aviary. Visitors gathered around aviary to view exotic birds.

Point Defiance Zoo (Tacoma); Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Aviaries--Tacoma;

ca. 1936. Lazy afternoon. Three people sit on the edge of a dock watching a small motor boat pass by with three people and two black dogs aboard.

Boats--Tacoma; Piers & wharves--Tacoma;

ca. 1935. Mayor George A. Smitley with Ethlynne "Skit" Smith (later Babson) and Ellis-Ayr Smith at his office in (Old) City Hall circa 1935. The Smith sisters were noted local skiers, Ellis-Ayr being a U.S. team member for the 1936 Winter Olympic Games at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Mayors--Tacoma--1930-1940; Smitley, George A., 1872-1956; Skiers; Babson, Ethlynne; Smith, Ethlynne; Smith, Ellis-Ayr; Families--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 09-00-1935. Pacific First Federal Savings and Loan, remodeling of old Safe Deposit Building, SW corner of 11th and Pacific. View looking down from Washington Building. For Harmon Miller's client Max Fischer.

Financial Institutions - Savings and Loan Associations - Tacoma - Pacific First Federal Savings and Loan Association

Scenic Puget Sound, moonlight, and small boat on water. A full moon breaks through a massive layer of dark clouds to cast its shadow over a forested island and across the water. Stock negative.

Bodies of Water - Puget SoundMoonlight

Artistic photograph of spider web. Stock negative.

Insects - Spiders - Webs

Ethlynne (Skit) Smith, a light dusting of snow on her hair and clothes, posed for the camera during the first ever Women's National Championships in downhill and slalom held at Mount Rainier April 13-14, 1935. "Skit," 23 years old, would triumph and become the first woman national champ in the slalom. She and her sister Ellis-Ayr, who won the downhill, had been skiing about two years. The pair had graduated from Stadium High School, where Skit had earned her nickname by writing a humor column for the school newspaper. She later married and continued to win ski races under the name Skit Babson.

Skiers--Tacoma--1930-1940; Athletes--Tacoma--1930-1940; Skiing--Tournaments--1930-1940; Babson, Ethlynne;

Eight young women holding large bouquets of daffodils walking through a field of daffodil flowers. The Sumner High School girls are wearing matching dresses and two other women are walking behind them. Stock negative. (t. Times 4/16/1936, pg. 1)

Daffodils--Puyallup; Meadows--Puyallup; Girls--Puyallup--1930-1940; Croplands;

Eight Sumner High School girls smile for the camera, their arms loaded with sunshine yellow King Alfred daffodils. The girls are identified as, not in order, Mary Thompson, Betty Tompkins, Betty Leslie, Calista Fawcett, Marjorie Seter, Jean Elliott, Connie Crest and Mildred McGuire. The photo is posed in one of the more than 500 acres of daffodil fields in the Puyallup Valley. The photograph is promotion for the 1936 Daffodil Festival. (T. Times 4/16/1936, pg. 1)

Daffodils--Puyallup; Meadows--Puyallup; Girls--Puyallup--1930-1940; Croplands;

The float in the 1936 Daffodil parade offered by the K Street Business Mens' Association depicts the K Street business sector as the "Hub of Activity." The floral tribute is built on the bed of a large truck. (T. Times 4/20/1936, pg. 3)

Parades & processions--Tacoma--1930-1940; Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival (1936 : Tacoma); Festivals--Tacoma; Floats (Parades)--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Melena Feldkirzhuer, left, and Darlene Reynolds strolled down the street with their Easter baskets on Easter Sunday in 1936. The girls' fashion for that special day included short dresses and long curly hairdos with ribbons. No coats were necessary on that beautiful spring day. The girls were from St. Leo's Church which was located at the corner of South 13th & Yakima Avenue South. Stock negative. [Also dated 05-00-1938] (T. Times 4/13/1936, pg. 1)

Holidays--Tacoma--1930-1940; Easter--Tacoma; Girls--Tacoma--1930-1940; Children--Clothing & dress--Tacoma--1930-1940; Feldkirzhuer, Melena; Reynolds, Darlene;

Members of First Presbyterian Church gather on the steps of the church for Easter Sunday services. Cram and Ferguson with Sutton, Whitney and Dugan, Architects; 1920-24.

Holidays--Tacoma--1930-1940; Presbyterian churches--Tacoma; First Presbyterian Church (Tacoma);

This inaccurately dated photograph was taken between 1927 and 1937. It shows what looks like a controlled fire on the Tacoma tideflats. The fire may be at or near the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company. The tower to the right of center is the First Presbyterian Church; at the right edge of the photograph is Stadium High School.

Fires--Tacoma--1920-1930;

Sandy Paulson and his friend enjoy being photographed beside the counter of a local business on August 28, 1936.

Paulson, Sandy; Men--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Close view of Mount Rainier. Stock negative.

Rainier, Mount (Wash.);

Two white horses pulling a four-wheeled sulkey and driver proceed up Ninth Street in the Cole Brothers- Clyde Beatty Circus parade. Palomino horses with riders carrying American flags follow behind the two-horse team. A large crowd of spectators watch the parade. This was the first circus procession in Tacoma in years and it was to announce the arrival by train of the Circus, which would be making a one day stop in Tacoma with performances in the afternoon and evening. The show would pitch tents on the Union Pacific RR circus grounds, opposite Union Station and across the 15th Street Bridge.

Circus parades--Tacoma--1930-1940; Horse teams--Tacoma; Flags; Spectators--Tacoma;

A circus wagon pulled by an eight horse team turned the corner at South 9th Street and Pacific Avenue as hundreds of Tacomans lined the parade route and watched. The Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty circus came to Tacoma in August of 1936 for a one day stop. With 1,080 performers and support staff and over 800 animals, including 30 elephants, the circus had the population of a good sized town. The featured performer is young Clyde Beatty, noted wild animal trainer. (T. Times 8/21/1936, pg. 13)

Circus parades--Tacoma--1930-1940; Horse teams--Tacoma; Flags; Spectators--Tacoma;

A Tacoma druggist looks doubtfully at the potion being offered to him by an exotic "swami" in a turban. The man in the colorful dress is identified in the Richards photography records as "Yogi." He is believed to be Tacoma native Harry Stewart, better known in comedy circles as "Yogi Yorgesson," the Hindu mystic with the Swedish accent. Harry was born in 1908 to the Skarbo family of Fox Island. He was adopted as a young child, after the death of his mother, by the Stewarts and was raised in Tacoma's Proctor District. He graduated from Stadium High and got his start in radio at KVI in 1927. In 1931, he moved to Los Angeles and began his comedic career as Yogi; cracking jokes, singing songs and answering audience questions by gazing into an upside down fish bowl. He died on May 20, 1956 when he fell asleep at the wheel and flipped his automobile. (the Harry Stewart Biography at yogiyorgesson.com)

Pharmacists--Tacoma--1930-1940; Turbans; Swamis; Stewart, Harry;

Tree house on top of pole.Two boys in a wooden lookout tower peering through a handmade telescope. The structure appears to be a club house or tree house for children.

ca. 1936. Tacoma skyline with Mount Rainier in the distance. See D2532 image 1 for original photograph. The major buildings in the foreground are, left to right, the Provident Building (917 Pacific Ave.), large blank area, the Bank of California (1011-1013 Pacific Ave.) and the Washington Building (1019 Pacific Ave.) The two large buildings in the background are, left to right, the Tacoma Building (1017-21 A St.) and the Perkins Building (1101 A St.)

Cityscapes--Tacoma--1930-1940;

A wide variety of flower arrangements were sent to City Hall when Mayor John C. Siegle was installed as the city's chief executive on June 6, 1938. The mayor appears to be leaning forward, perhaps in response to a question, when photographed between his two nominees for city posts, William J. Ganz and C. Amos Booth. The floral pieces were transferred from council chambers to Mayor Siegle's private office. Dr. John Charles Siegle was a well-known civic leader and leading dentist before becoming mayor. He was a prime supporter of the city and sought to develop tourism and industry. ALBUM 11. (T.Times 6-6-38, 1, 14).

Mayors--Tacoma--1930-1940; Siegle, John C., 1885-1939; Ganz, William J.; Booth, C. Amos; Flower arrangements;