During World War I a temporary Naval Training Station was set up on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units.
This image of U. S. Navy Training Station personnel appears to have been taken at the station commissary.
This photo is part of an album belonging to Anne Augusta Bathurst (1894-1984) who was a UW student and served as Chief Yeomen (F) (popularly known as "Yeomanettes"), at the Naval Training Station during the period in which the photo was taken. Women were recruited into the Naval Reserve Force in the WW I era to meet severe clerical shortages at shore stations. In 1922 Anne married Henry H. "Harry" Hoefs (1893-1979), a Lieutenant commander in the U. S. Navy during both WWI and WWII; they were stationed all over the world and retired to Bellevue.
Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, July 18, 1918, page 17 Caption information source: U.S. Navy Naval Historical Center website at http://www.history.navy.mil
ID Number: Lib1993.35.3.53
Date: Circa 1918
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on paper : b&w ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State. View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv19210
Credit: MOHAI, U.S. Naval Training Station at University of Washington Photograph Albums, Lib1993.35.3.53
