Archive for November 2022

The Community Archive Center's "Salishan Story Fest" event is featured as the cover story in current issue Archival Outlook magazine!

John MacDougall was pictured above on November 12, 1972, balling and burlaping Christmas trees on his tiny Tacoma Living Yule Trees farm. His stock included many rare and exotic living Yule trees such as Cortorta Pine and Spanish fir and also beautiful specimens of common varieties such as pine and Douglas fir. The MacDougall family…

By Spencer Bowman Jacki Skaught, the donor of this collection, has had a strong background in city development and government. She was a member of the League of Women’s Voters and held positions on the Tacoma City Council. As such, she had worked closely with city management. She joined the Jury of Recommendations that was officially…

Mrs. Pearl Croft (left) and Mrs. Georgia Clayton prepared the turkey with dressing dinners that were served at the annual Autumn Dinner Festival on November 8, 1968 at the Senior Center at 923 No. 13th Street. All Pierce County senior residents over the age of 55 were invited. Mrs. Clayton, the chef at the center…

Harmonizing behind the intriguing sign "Do Not Spit On The Floor" is believed to be the award winning barbershop quartet, the Most Happy Fellows. The singers were featured in "Music Americana," the third annual barbershop musical show sponsored by the Greater Tacoma Chapter of Sweet Adelines, Inc. This photograph was taken during dress rehearsal at…

Join us on an archival processing project where we organize and make available a new collection of Tacoma Art Museum material!