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    The Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington and friends in the newly adopted museum rooms in the basaement of City Hall, 1951.
    The Yakima Valley Museum as it looked in the 1950s.
    Groundbreaking for the future Yakima Valley Museum in Franklin Park,1956. George Martin and John J. Miller in the forerground.
    The Yakima Valley Museum as it looked in the late 1950s
    Groundbreaking in 1974 for a new addition to the Yakima Valley Museum to house the newly acquired Gannon Wagon collection. Felicia Holtzinger, Homer Splawn, and George Martin are pictured holding shovels.
    The Yakima Valley Museum as it looked in the 1970s
    In 1975 the Gannon Wagon Collection is moved from the old Burrows Building, at Front and A Streets, up Tieton Drive to the new 29,000 square foot addition to the Yakima Valley Museum.
    The H.M. Gilbert homeplace, built in 1898, was given to the museum in 1982.
    Yakima Valley Museum as it looked in the 1990s
    Helen Jewett pulls the old foyer off the front of the Yakima Valley Museum in 2001 at the groundbreaking of the museum's latest addition.
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