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Author: Nick Peters Publisher: Turner Publishing Company ISBN: 1596523344 Category : Historic buildings Languages : en Pages : 228
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From Old Town to the Union Station, Historic Photos of Tacoma is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives. With around 200 photographs, many of which have never been published, this beautiful coffee table book shows the historical growth from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's of ?The City of Destiny? in stunning black and white photography. The book follows life, government, events and people important to Tacoma and the building of this unique city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of Tacoma!
Author: Nick Peters Publisher: Turner Publishing Company ISBN: 1596523344 Category : Historic buildings Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
From Old Town to the Union Station, Historic Photos of Tacoma is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives. With around 200 photographs, many of which have never been published, this beautiful coffee table book shows the historical growth from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's of ?The City of Destiny? in stunning black and white photography. The book follows life, government, events and people important to Tacoma and the building of this unique city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of Tacoma!
Author: Deb Freedman Publisher: ISBN: 9781733618106 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Leading Ladies: Twenty-One of Tacoma's Women of Destiny, is the fourth in the Society's popular "Twenty-One Tales" series of local history curriculum supplements. Written by Deb Freedman and Michael Ann Konek, the 48-page title presents much-needed biographical information in an engaging story format. The project's goal is to provide accessible local history curriculum material for teachers and students by highlighting twenty-one women who reflect a balance of diversity in time period, field of work, and ethnicity. As with earlier titles, over 1500 copies will be distributed free of charge to local elementary schools.The publishing project has also been supported by women. The authors donated their research, writing, and editing time. A team of twenty-one women helped select the subjects. The cover bears a painting by the noted artist Abby Williams Hill, from the Abby Williams Hill collection at the University of Puget Sound. Twenty-one women's groups or individuals made contributions toward the hard costs of the project, including a donation from Columbia Bank in memory of the late Melanie Dressel.
Author: Caroline Gallacci Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738548128 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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When Allen C. Mason launched his Point Defiance line in the early 1890s, the Proctor area became one of Tacoma's first streetcar suburbs. Before this time, Tacoma's North End was a remote, unsettled region populated only by those visiting the city's horseracing track. After Mason established a streetcar stop at the intersection of North Twenty-sixth and Proctor Streets--near the racetrack--businesses began to line the thoroughfare. By 1900, houses had been constructed within walking distance of the line, and a residential neighborhood provided the impetus for the construction of schools, a firehouse, churches, and a library. By the 1920s, the neighborhood had expanded and changed to reflect the introduction of the automobile as well as the district's popularity with University of Puget Sound students studying nearby. The community spirit that emerged then continues to this day.
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company ISBN: 1618586866 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 267
Book Description
From Old Town to the Union Station, Historic Photos of Tacoma is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives. With around 200 photographs, many of which have never been published, this beautiful coffee table book shows the historical growth from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's of ?The City of Destiny? in stunning black and white photography. The book follows life, government, events and people important to Tacoma and the building of this unique city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of Tacoma!
Author: Russell H. Holter Publisher: ISBN: 9780977617609 Category : Logging railroads Languages : en Pages : 538
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This long anticipated book features: 552 pages of text--First person accounts of life on the Tacoma Eastern railroad--400 rare photos-- custom drawn maps--plus many other illustrations. Learn the origins of this little logging line that grew from obscurity, survived despite economic panic, wars, limited financing, and both hostile and friendly acquisitions to become a national tourist destination and one of the most profitable rail lines west of Chicago.
Author: Jerry A. McCoy Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738541884 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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Images of America: Historic Silver Spring celebrates the community's past, beginning with founder Francis Preston Blair's 1840 discovery of the mica-flecked spring and the 1873 arrival of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Vintage photographs document the progressive growth of the "Main Streets," Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road, and the construction of the Silver Spring Armory and National Dry Cleaning Institute in 1927 and the Silver Theatre and Silver Spring Shopping Center in 1938. The volume culminates with modern pictures of downtown Silver Spring's 21st-century revitalization, which continues to preserve the past and secure the future of the area. In a pictorial journey through the community's Central Business District and bordering residential neighborhood, East Silver Spring, Historic Silver Spring honors the people and places that have come before.
Author: Harold G. Moss Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781530848287 Category : African American civil rights workers Languages : en Pages : 116
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American politician, Harold G. Moss whose political career spanned more than 60 years, tells his story in a way that only "Moss" can tell it! Harold Moss was the first African American member of Tacoma, WA city council, its first African American mayor, and the first African American member of the Pierce County Council. Fighting for the Dreams that Mattered is a story about the civil rights movement in the Pacific Northwest told by an everyday hero: his dreams, his struggles, his triumphs.
Author: Lisa Mae Hoffman Publisher: ISBN: 9780295748221 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Tacoma's vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a significant number of first- and second-generation Japanese immigrants to the United States, and these families formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious, prefectural, and economic backgrounds. As the city's Nisei grew up attending the secular Japanese Language School, they absorbed the Meiji-era cultural practices and ethics of the previous generation. At the same time, they positioned themselves in new and dynamic ways, including resisting their parents and pursuing lives that diverged from traditional expectations. Becoming Nisei, based on more than forty interviews, shares stories of growing up in Japanese American Tacoma before the incarceration. Recording these early twentieth-century lives counteracts the structural forgetting and erasure of prewar histories in both Tacoma and many other urban settings after World War II. Lisa Hoffman and Mary Hanneman underscore both the agency of Nisei in these processes as well as their negotiations of prevailing social and power relations.
Author: Murray Morgan Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295744626 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 537
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With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, “the City of Destiny,” and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington’s history took place. Drawing upon original journals and reports, Morgan builds Puget’s Sound around individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known historical figures with a raucous parade of saloonkeepers, politicians, union organizers, schemers, and swindlers. His account begins with the landing of Captain Vancouver in Puget Sound in 1792 and ends with the founding of Fort Lewis in 1916. Between are the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, the boom-and-bust of lumber mills, the anti-Chinese riots of 1885, and more distinctive Northwest history that will intrigue both new arrivals and longtime residents. With a new introduction by historian and historic preservationist Michael Sean Sullivan, this redesigned edition of Puget’s Sound brings new life to Morgan’s landmark history.
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Author: Russell H. Holter
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Author: Lisa Mae Hoffman
Author: Murray Morgan