Shiela (Mrs. Valen) Honeywell is looking very statuesque as she stands on a stairway wearing a strapless evening gown. The white walls, white staircase, white nylon tulle of the skirt of her dress, the white sequins on the bodice of her dress, her light skin and blonde hair create an ephemeral feeling for this portrait. She is carrying a sparkling evening bag and wears sparkling jewelry with diamond settings. Ordered by the Tacoma News Tribune for their fall fashion section. (TNT, 9/11/1952, p.C-4)

Women--Tacoma--1950-1960; Evening gowns--Tacoma; Honeywell, Shiela;

A view of the exterior of the new "Alert Hanger" at McChord Field. The large buildings have been covered with corrugated metal sheeting. A lower segment has been added between two larger structures with large, overhead doors. Ordered by Continental Steel Builders. TPL-10390

Airports--Tacoma--1940-1950; McChord Field (Tacoma); Hangars--Tacoma;

A view of the interior of the new "Alert Hanger" at McChord Field where large, overhead doors are seen on both the left and the right. A few tools are seen against the far wall built using corrugated metal sheeting. Ordered by Continental Steel Builders. TPL-10391

Airports--Tacoma--1940-1950; McChord Field (Tacoma); Hangars--Tacoma;

The Daffodil Room at the Winthrop Hotel provides a less formal luncheon and dining area. Semi-circular booths line the left side of the room while a long bench with seats on both sides runs through the center of the room with tables and chairs on either side of it. A counter with swivel seats can be seen in the right-hand corner. Tables are provided in the rear of the room. The draperies and the carpet have a daffodil pattern to match the theme of the room. Chandeliers provide lighting.

Hotels--Tacoma--1950-1960; Restaurants--Tacoma--1950-1960; Hotel Winthrop (Tacoma);

Exposure of Seattle homes for Master Builders Display at the Seattle Home Show, for Phares Advertising Agency. This one story ranch home with brick facing on the lower front, by Bell & Valdez, has an attached garage and a three pane window to the right. The home is located on NE 19th St. in Bellevue.

Houses--Seattle--1950-1960; Seattle Home Show (Seattle);

The rear of Frank Kirste's two-story house in the Sunset Beach area of University Place. Gordon Johnston was the architect of the house. Lawn chairs are seen under a shade umbrella. The brick and wooden siding house is set on a slope facing the west.

Houses--University Place--1950-1960; Johnston, Gordon N.; Kirste, Frank--Homes & haunts;

A view of the sink and cupboards in Edna B. (Mrs. Carl F.) Johnson's kitchen before remodeling. The sink has a high back-splash above it and below the open windows. The upper cupboard on the left comes low over the counter and the lower cupboards on the left are hinged at the bottom to provide opening bins. There are two sets of drawers on the far right. Glass knobs have been used for most of the drawer pulls.

Kitchens--Tacoma--1950-1960; Then & now comparisons; Johnson, Edna B.--Homes & haunts;

An aerial view of St. Regis Paper Company plant showing the completed multi-wall bag plant (with the dark roof dotted with vents) and the narrow kraft-paper mill.

Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Mills--Tacoma; Logs; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960;

An aerial view of St. Regis Paper Company. Logs would be pulled up the ramp in the foreground from the log pond into the woodroom in the building close to the edge of Commencement Bay. TPL-5903

Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Mills--Tacoma; Logs; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960;

A man is straddling a crossbeam pointing at a hole in a row of holes below a series of pipes at Rayonier's Grays Harbor mill at Raymond, Washington. There are walls of pipes on three sides of him. The Grays Harbor mill went into operation in 1928 and consisted of both a pulp mill and a paper mill. This mill manufactured chemical cellulose for use in production of viscose rayon and tire cord, and also made the pulp required by its own paper mill producing fine papers for businesses. (Rayonier 1952 Annual Report)

Rayonier, Inc. (Raymond); Lumber industry--Raymond--1950-1960;

A close up of heavy, cast iron machines with stacks manufctured by Western Gear Works, Seattle, at Rayonier's Grays Harbor mill in Raymond, Washington. Rayonier completed many improvements at the Grays Harbor mill in 1952. A large high-pressure boiler was installed to serve the mill's increased capacity. The bleach plant was modernized, with new bleach cells; in making possible a wider range of refining procedures, this broadened the versatility of the mill and opened the way to production of new grades of chemical cellulose. (Rayonier 1952 Annual Report)

Rayonier, Inc. (Raymond); Lumber industry--Raymond--1950-1960;

The garage doors are open at Sears Roebuck's new warehouse and men are loading a delivery from a truck onto a rack of rollers to ease movement of the cartons into the warehouse.

Sears, Roebuck & Co. (Tacoma); Loading docks--Tacoma; Shipping--Tacoma--1950-1960; Warehouses--Tacoma;

Sears Roebuck and Company's shoe department includes a display of oxfords for $5.99 and moccasins for $2.49 on the right with childrens' and waterproof shoes on the left. The rest of the large department continues in the rear.

Sears, Roebuck & Co. (Tacoma); Merchandise displays--Tacoma; Shoes;

Valley Construction Company is preparing to install a storm sewer at the main fort at Fort Lewis. Large and smaller concrete conduit have been delivered to the edge of one of the roads in the Fort Lewis army base.

Sewers--Fort Lewis; Penstocks--Fort Lewis; Valley Construction Co. (Seattle);

The interior of Ostlund's Shoe Store with the sales counter and cash register on the left, a row of chairs on right, and two rows of chairs through the center rear with a large Red Goose statue on each side in the rear advertising children's Red Goose shoes. Shoe boxes line both walls.

Shoe stores--Tacoma--1950-1960; Ostlund's Shoe Store (Tacoma); Cash registers;

Phil Ostlund opened Ostlund's Shoe Store in the growing K Street district. The new and modern shoe salon had a sandstone front and huge display windows with Red Goose children's shoes on the left, John C. Roberts shoes for men on the right, and women's shoes and slippers near the door. The store had front and rear entrances which took advantage of the easy parking in front and rear of the store. A shoe repair department was also available at Ostlund's. (TNT, 8/26/1952, p.7)

Shoe stores--Tacoma--1950-1960; Ostlund's Shoe Store (Tacoma); Window displays--Tacoma--1950-1960; Storefronts--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Interior of open building with dirt floor and welders.

3 men operating crane with weights and pulleys--above frame with 4 large wheels and tires.

Fourteen men in uniform are standing on the tarmac in front of a Western Airlines airplane. Another man, not in uniform, is looking at papers one of the men in uniform is holding.

Airplanes; Soldiers;

Women of the Tacoma unit No. 138 of the American Legion auxiliary were folding more than 120,000 sheets of Tuberculosis Association Christmas seals for 1952. Shown are, L-R, standing Fannie (Mrs. Roy) Hinchcliff, Mrs. George Prentice, Birdie Hay, Nettie May Grisham, Georgia (Mrs. Heber) Wolfe, Eva (Mrs. Alvis) Gasaway and Hazel (Mrs. Wilbur) Boyer. Seated, Mrs. Harry Johnson, Mrs. A.N. Ohlinger, Ruth (Mrs. R.A.) Hedberg, Mrs. George Terry, Mrs. August Boschert, Goldie (Mrs. Jesse) Baker, Evelyn Draper, Mrs. Carl Druse, Hazel Hess, Mrs. Pete Passero and Hilda (Mrs. Max) Mrohs. Ordered by the Tuberculosis Association. TNT, 10/12/1952, p.D-9)

American Legion Edward B. Rhodes Post No. 2 (Tacoma); Community service--Tacoma--1940-1950; Christmas seals; Tuberculosis League of Pierce County (Tacoma); Women--Tacoma--1950-1960;

This group of workers from the American Rock Wool Corporation posed in front of bags of insulation at their Tideflats plant located at 2301 Taylor Way in late September of 1952. John S. Tillman was manager of the Tacoma plant at this time. American Rock Wool Corporation bought the Feltrok Insulation Manufacturing Company in 1952. It, in turn, was purchased by US Gypsum in 1959, who bought all eight American Rock Wool plants nationwide. American Rock Wool manufactured rock wool insulation from slag obtained from the Tacoma smelter. The rock wool was used for home and industrial installation. (TNT 4-24-59, p. 1-article on US Gypsum purchase)

American Rock Wool Corp. (Tacoma)--People; Laborers--Tacoma--1950-1960; Factories--Tacoma--1950-1960; Building materials;

Maruta Versemnicks, from Latvia, admires the doll and wardrobe which was sold to benefit the Tacoma-Pierce County School for Crippled Children. This was one of the benefit projects the Chi chapter, Beta Sigma Phi, had scheduled for the year. Sylvia (Mrs. Lloyd J.) Sass was chairman of the committee handling the project. Maruta is wearing a leg brace. From 1949-50, the School for Crippled Children was housed in the basement of the First Congregational Church at 211 So. J St. In 1953, the school moved to its new home at 5030 E. Roosevelt Ave. in Salishan. It would remain there for approximately ten years. (TNT, 11/2/1952, p.D-10)

Beta Sigma Phi (Tacoma); Fraternities & sororities--Tacoma--1950-1960; Girls--Tacoma--1950-1960; Children playing with dolls--Tacoma--1950-1960; Dolls; Orthopedic braces; Versemnicks, Maruta; Crippled Childrens School (Tacoma);

Mrs. Frances K. Palmer was the sponsor of A.M.S. (motor minesweeper) 117 built by Pacific Boat Building Company. Mrs. Palmer was the bookkeeper at Pacific Boat and secretary to the company's manager. She has been presented with an engraved platter commemorating the launching of the new minesweeper.

Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Pacific Boat Building Co. (Tacoma); Launchings--Tacoma--1950-1960; Palmer, Frances K.;

Patricia Price and John W. Wells, U.S. Coast Guard, were married October 11, 1952, in the First Lutheran Church. Patricia is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Price of Sylvan and her bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Wells of Woodburn, Oregon. Patricia wore a gown of white satin with lace applique on the bodice and skirt. Jacquelyn Price, sister of the bride, and Noreene Wells, sister of the bridegroom were two of the bride's attendants. Robert Wells was best man for his brother and Ray and William Price, brothers of the bride were two of the ushers. (TNT, 10/26/1952, p.C-8)

Brides--1950-1960; Weddings--Tacoma--1950-1960; Grooms (Weddings)--1950-1960; Wedding costume--1950-1960; Families--Tacoma--1950-1960; First Lutheran Church (Tacoma); Lutheran churches--Tacoma; Price, Patricia--Marriage; Wells, John W.;

A group of twenty-six young football players proudly pose for their team portrait at Cheney Field wearing Cheney Studs jerseys and helmets and plenty of pads. Ben Cheney is standing in the rear on the right.

Cheney, Ben B., 1905-1971; Athletic fields--Tacoma--1950-1960; Cheney Field (Tacoma); Football players--Tacoma--1950-1960;

An unidentified family have gathered for a group portrait. The younger generation has five men and two women framing an older couple.

Families--Tacoma--1950-1960;

The MSB #15 was one of two minesweepers launched at Tacoma Boat Building Company in September 1952. The MSBs were 57-foot minesweepers. Tacoma Boat would build five of the craft. (TNT, 9/21/1952, p.B-4)

Launchings--Tacoma--1950-1960; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Tacoma Boat Building Co., Inc. (Tacoma);

The AMS 115 was the second 144 foot minesweeper to be built at Tacoma Boat Building Company in 1952. AMS 113 was launched in July 1952. The 115 is seen here as she was launched at the boatyard.

Launchings--Tacoma--1950-1960; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Tacoma Boat Building Co., Inc. (Tacoma);

In October of 1952, newspaper columnist Emily Walker (left), head of the committee to re-elect Senator Harry P. Cain, and Judy Gordon held a conference call with Sen. Cain, who was in Okanogan. They briefed him on the critical comments made by President Truman about the Republican presidential candidate, Dwight D. Eisenhower, while campaigning in Tacoma for Washington State Democrats. President Truman had spoken to a sold out crowd of 5,000+ at the Tacoma Armory on October 2nd. Harry Cain wanted to be able to answer Truman and "set the record straight" as part of the Republican "Truth Campaign." A poster of Senator Cain can be seen behind the pair, asking voters to "Retain Cain, U.S. Senator." Cain was unseated by Henry M. Jackson in the fall 1952 election. (TNT 10/5/1952, p.A-3-alternate photograph) ALBUM 13

Legislators--Washington--1950-1960; Cain, Harry P., 1906-1979; Political campaigns; Walker, Emily N.; Gordon, Judy; Telephones; Journalists--Tacoma;

Two men are assembling rebuilt Ford "flathead" V8 engines in the rebuilding shop at TAM Engineering Corporation.

Machine shops--Tacoma; TAM Engineering Corp. (Tacoma);