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| Advertisement | Tacoma Business College (1889) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Tacoma Business College |
| Publication Source | Tacoma city directory, p. 51 |
| Publisher | R.L. Polk & Company |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma |
| Publication Date | 1889
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| Advertisement Text | Why is a business education best? Because it fits one for the active duties of every-day life. Because it sharpens and develops the perceptive and reasoning faculties...Because it imparts system and order in the management of all transactions. Because it enables each to understand the intricacies of commercial dealings...To young men and women - is your education deficient?...Would you like to possess a powerful lever in this daily struggle for existence?...Our business training is suited for you. |
| Contextual Notes | The college was located at 938 Pacific Avenue in Tacoma. It educated students on double entry bookkeeping, plain penmanship, commercial law, business arithmetic, practical grammar, letter writing, partnership settlements, hydrostatics, Greek, Latin, French, German, and other disciplines.
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| Category | Education and schools |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Universities & colleges--Washington (State)--Tacoma; Business education--Washington (State)--Tacoma |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Business schools--Washington (State)--Tacoma |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0401 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.745 D62 1889 |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from text at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008 |
