Pastimes – Boating – Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum

Living close to Budd Inlet and Priest Point Park, the Bigelow family enjoyed waterfront activities. These images are iconic snapshots of water sports that many families around Olympia enjoyed during the summer.

Seven Oars Photo—Women on beachfront holding oars with small girl. Margaret Bigelow at far right.

Same grouping as 044 with oyster shells in foreground.

Bigelow family members on the beach with oyster shells. Possibly Priest Point Park

Women and men with two canoes. Margaret Bigelow in rear canoe—after the 7 Oars photo?

Woman in canoe.

Margaret Bigelow and child in canoe.

Four women with canoe on beach front.

Six children in waterfront canoe.

Large group on a boat with dock in the forefront.

Passengers and captain on a small steamboat with dock in the forefront.

Digitization and posting of these images from the Bigelow House Collection funded through the Pendleton & Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation.