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The photos below depict several of the residents of Sinclair Park in the 1940s.

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Open-book style menu titled Photos at Sinclair Park, listing six sections from The Community through Maps

Families

Reverend Hunt and his family: a seated woman with several children, and a man in a dark suit and white collar standing at right

The Walker family in 1946: eight people posed indoors, a man at center holding an open book and a woman holding a baby

Al Colvin, brother of Jesse Colvin, in a leather flying helmet and goggles

The Alice Robison family posed in a room: a seated woman in front, a child, and adults standing behind

The Jesse Thomes family and daughter Irene: three people posed together against a pale wall, a man in a dark suit in the middle

Pearl Younger, head-and-shoulders sepia portrait of a woman with dark curly hair and a slight smile

Elnora Holland in the 1940s, seated outdoors in a checked dress beside a young child in overalls, with a house behind them

Loxie and Alyce Eagans in 1944, standing side by side outdoors, he in a dark suit and she in a light suit holding a hat

Mr. Henry and Mrs. Lucille Harris, who helped build the Hill Top Baptist church in 1944, shaking hands outdoors

The Community

1940s family car: a dark sedan with whitewall tires parked at a curb

Three friends who lived in Sinclair Park around the 1940s, two in polka-dot dresses and one in a plaid jacket

Sinclair Park in 1948: a dirt street lined with small single-story houses, with a utility pole at left

Fally Tyson, deacon of Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church, sitting on the grass with a child and a dark dog by a wire fence

The Community Church burning on Christmas Eve 1944, as onlookers on the lawn watch smoke and flames rise

The rental office in the winter of 1944: a small low building among snow-covered evergreen trees

Lillian Walker, first Black postmistress of Kitsap County, in a head-and-shoulders sepia portrait

Marie Greer, who taught in the children's nursery, in a sepia portrait with dark hair swept back and earrings

Argie Lee Williams and Dorothy Williams at their 1948 graduation, in white gowns and caps in front of a building

Gertrude Joseph in a light dress, sitting in an armchair with one hand resting on the arm

Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Greer in later years, seated side by side, she in a light suit with a brooch and he in a striped suit and glasses

Mrs. Elwood Greer, who nursed children of naval shipyard workers, seated in a light jacket and bow blouse

Sinclair Community Church Sunday School on Easter Sunday 1944: a large group posed in rows on a stepped platform

Our Children

Community Activities & Social Groups

William Lee Miller and Gloria Joseph walking side by side along a dirt road between small houses

Sepia photo of Audrey Smith, an unknown sailor and Doris Jones standing close together outdoors

Sepia group photo of Fred Brown's kids and Millie and LB Williams kids posed together in a group

The Wiley Walker children sitting side by side on a bench in light blouses and skirts

Gloria Joseph standing in Sinclair Park in 1946, in a light dress with one hand on her hip

Earl Smith in Sinclair Park, in a dark short-sleeved shirt and dark pants in front of a house

Lucian smiling from under a wide-brimmed sailor hat, with a sailor collar

Earl in a dark fedora and suit jacket, facing the camera in a studio portrait

Earl in a fedora and dark jacket, a head-and-shoulders portrait

Andrey, a woman with curled hair and a sailor-style collar, in a head-and-shoulders portrait

Waymond in a flat cap and checked jacket, smiling in a studio portrait

Alameda in a polka-dot dress with a large white bow in the hair, standing against a studio backdrop

1946 photo taken after school at Audrey's home across from the Community Building: young people and a small child posed close together

Jr Griffin at Sinclair Park, bending over a ball on a concrete surface

Warren Holland II seated on a cushion outdoors in a knit sweater and striped shorts

Monique (left), Priscilla Richardson (center) and Dionne Joseph (right) at Dionne's birthday party

Opal Webb (left), Celestine Robinson (middle) and Myrtle Farr (right) in dark coats standing outdoors

Dionne Joseph (left), Patricia Richardson (center) and Gloria Joseph (right) in winter coats with their dog Chippie

The basketball team posed in two rows at the Sinclair Park Community Center Building, in light athletic shirts

Two people holding snowballs outdoors in 1944, the first snow these kids had ever seen

Azzree Williams Lathan, niece of Mrs Mary Golden, in a sepia head-and-shoulders portrait with short curly hair

Quincy Jones as a boy in a cap and dark coat, sitting on steps in front of a door

Madra Jones, Quincy Jones's sister, holding a small bundle in white outdoors in 1946

Almeeda Williams and Earl Smith posed together outdoors after school

Almeeda Williams, Waymond Miller and Willie Lee Miller posed together outdoors

School friends Audrey D Smith and Waymond J Miller in a 1944 photo posed outdoors

Lois Singleton in a light coat, standing next to the flag pole

Louise (left), the wife of a sailor housed on the hill, posed outdoors beside another person

Louise and a baby boy in 1945, posed close together outdoors

Audrey D Smith posing on a coal bin outdoors

Catherine Miller, Lloyd Jones, Earl J Smith Jr, Madra Jones and Quincy D Jones Jr posed together outdoors

Audrey D Smith, Bremerton High School Drill Team captain, in her 1947 drill uniform and cap

Group gathered around a decorated table at the church for Mother's Day, with sailors among them

Sinclair Park Drama Club in 1946, members posed in rows indoors

Members of the Daughters of Elks, a women's organization organized in 1944, posed in rows

Bremerton All Star team of 1944 posed on a grassy field in matching uniforms

N.S.O. Baseball Team of 1944 posed in matching uniforms, some kneeling in front

Members of the African American Elks Club, established June 27, 1945, gathered around a table

Members of the Carver Civic Club in the 1960s posed together indoors in suits and dresses

Early Smith and Quincy D Jones Jr standing close together in Seattle in 1970

Quincy D Jones Jr and Audrey D Miller posed close together in Seattle in 1958, both smiling

Three women in front of an evergreen tree, friends gathered in Bremerton in later years

Former Bremerton residents photographed together in Seattle in 1970, holding drinks in a kitchen

1946 stage play Jiving Macbeth at the Community Center Building: costumed actors on stage, with a trumpet player at right

Group of people at a mid-1940s gathering, standing and seated in a room

U.S.O. Bremerton, a group seated in a row on a bench in dresses and suits

Gladys Walker learning archery beside a row of women drawing bows outdoors

Navy Band Melody Project musicians at Sinclair Park, playing behind stands labeled Melody Project

Paul and Alvin Isadore side by side in suits, who lived with the Joseph family and worked as U.S.O. greeters

Sinclair youth in Jiving Macbeth, 1946: a man in a ruffled collar kneels and takes the hand of a woman in a long gown

Delsie Williams in a cap and gown outdoors, the first African American commencement speaker at Bremerton High School

Gloria Joseph Sturdivant in a white majorette uniform and cap, one of the first African American majorettes at Bremerton High School

Irene Williams in a cap and gown on graduation day from Bremerton High School, June 1946

Audrey Smith in front of a West Park housing unit on June 6, 1949, after her Bremerton High School graduation

Bremerton All Stars baseball players in uniform, two men posed in front of a wooden building

The Colored U.S.O. in the 1940s: a two-story wood building with a flag, and a vintage car parked in front

Audry Smith Miller of Bremerton, Drill Team Captain, in a 1948 photo posed outdoors in a light uniform

Naval Ammunition Depot Band at the Sinclair Park Community Center Building in 1944, musicians with brass instruments

The COMMUNITY BUILDING

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North west corner of the Sinclair Park Community Building, a low white building with rows of windows and a brick chimney

North facade of the Sinclair Park Community Building, a white one-story building with a tall chimney and fenced yard

North facade of the Sinclair Park Community Building, viewed across the lot with a utility pole and bushes at left

North east corner of the Sinclair Park Community Building, a low white building with a tall chimney behind it

East facade of the Sinclair Park Community Building, a long low building with a row of tall windows along its length

North east corner of the Sinclair Park Community Building, its long white wall lined with windows beside a utility pole

West facade of the Community Building and the adjacent armory, a long white building beside a small shed

1947 map of Bremerton public housing projects with Sinclair Park marked near the shoreline

Map of Sinclair Park housing, rows of small house outlines on curved streets, labeled Housing Authority of the City of Bremerton

Sinclair Park map with the Community Building marked, showing house outlines along Carver Avenue and Union Avenue

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