| Summary: | 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 parading in downtown Seattle was taken as they marched south on Second Avenue. The Hudson Bay Fur Co. was located on the corner of Stewart Street and Second Avenue. 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. Business in image: Hudson Bay Fur Company, Inc.; Hotel Washington Annex; The Amherst Hotel 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 1 photographic print mounted on paper: b&w; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
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