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Image of Women workers standing in front of the Kirkland Cooperative Cannery, Kirkland, July 1939
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Women workers standing in front of the Kirkland Cooperative Cannery, Kirkland, July 1939

In 1939, during the Great Depression, Washington State operated four cooperative canneries, all funded by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). Canneries at Kirkland and Kent served families from as far as away Everett and Tacoma. Any family with an income of less than $100 a month could bring fruit, vegetables, and meat to the cannery to preserve them for…
ID Number:1986.5.4890.1
Date:1939
Image of Women working at the Kirkland Cooperative Cannery, Kirkland, July 13, 1939
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Women working at the Kirkland Cooperative Cannery, Kirkland, July 13, 1939

In 1939, during the Great Depression, Washington State operated four cooperative canneries, all funded by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). Canneries at Kirkland and Kent served families from as far as away Everett and Tacoma. Any family with an income of less than $100 a month could bring fruit, vegetables, and meat to the cannery to preserve them for…
ID Number:1986.5.4890.2
Date:1939
Image of Puyallup River flood control model at the University of Washington, 1938
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Puyallup River flood control model at the University of Washington, 1938

Just north of the Oceanography building on the University of Washington campus, an outdoor scale model of the lower Puyallup River was built by the University and the Works Progress Administration for experimentation in flood control. This photo shows two men working on the model, with the UW Harris Hydraulics Laboratory visible in the background. The names Norton, William; Abie,…
ID Number:1986.5.6554.1
Date:1938
Image of Puyallup River flood control model at the University of Washington, 1938
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Puyallup River flood control model at the University of Washington, 1938

Just north of the Oceanography building on the University of Washington campus, an outdoor scale model of the lower Puyallup River was built by the University and the Works Progress Administration for experimentation in flood control. This photo shows four men near water pumping equipment. The names Norton, William; Abie, Don; Harris, Charles, Prof; Griffith, Howard; Snook, Glenn; Reynolds, Earl;…
ID Number:1986.5.6554.2
Date:1938
Image of Puyallup River flood control model at the University of Washington, 1938
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Puyallup River flood control model at the University of Washington, 1938

Just north of the Oceanography building on the University of Washington campus, an outdoor scale model of the lower Puyallup River was built by the University and the Works Progress Administration for experimentation in flood control. The names Norton, William; Abie, Don; Harris, Charles, Prof; Griffith, Howard; Snook, Glenn; Reynolds, Earl; Sather, F. I.; Hussey, Edward were noted in the…
ID Number:1986.5.6554.3
Date:1938
Image of Three women standing in front of the Hughes Penthouse Theatre on the University of Washington campus, Seattle, May 1940
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Three women standing in front of the Hughes Penthouse Theatre on the University of Washington campus, Seattle, May 1940

The Penthouse Theatre on the University of Washington campus opened on May 16, 1940 with a production of "Spring Dance." Built with Works Progress Administration funds, the 172-seat theater, designed by Glenn Hughes, head of the University of Washington's School of Drama, and John Conway, chief designer for the drama department, was the first theater-in-the-round constructed in the United States.…
ID Number:1986.5.12660.1
Date:1940
Image of WPA workers vote to strike inside Eagles Hall, Seattle, 1937
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WPA workers vote to strike inside Eagles Hall, Seattle, 1937

At the Eagles Hall on Union Street, 800 hands rose in unison as Works Progress Administration workers voted to continue their month-long strike. Supported by the Workers' Alliance of Washington, the strikers voted two days later to end the strike after receiving guarantees of a six-hour day, a five-day week, and union-level hourly pay rates. The Fraternal Order of the…
ID Number:1986.5.16694.1
Date:1937
Image of WPA bookmobile at Grayland School, June 8, 1940
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WPA bookmobile at Grayland School, June 8, 1940

During the Great Depression, libraries all over the United States had to lay off staff members and reduce salaries of those who remained. From the mid-1930s until the outbreak of World War II, several New Deal programs provided money to improve public and school library buildings and services. In Washington state, two federally-funded bookmobiles carried reading material to communities in…
ID Number:1986.5.16696.1
Date:1940
Image of WPA applicants in a Seattle office, 1937
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WPA applicants in a Seattle office, 1937

Handwritten on sleeve: W.P.A., Seattle, applicants. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): February 8, 1937.
ID Number:1986.5.16697.1
Date:1937
Image of Sand Point Naval Air Station entrance, Seattle, circa 1940
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Sand Point Naval Air Station entrance, Seattle, circa 1940

Under a variety of official designations, Sand Point, a peninsula in north Seattle that juts into Lake Washington, served for almost 50 years as an air base, aviation training center, and aircraft repair depot for the U.S. Navy. The development of the combat-ready naval air station on Whidbey Island made Sand Point superfluous as an air base, and in 1970…
ID Number:2000.107.217.35.01
Date:Circa 1940
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