Looking Back’s theme for 2025 features Thurston County area photographers, artists, and their subjects. Huntington Brothers operated a photographic business in downtown Olympia in the mid-19th century. Their specialty was stereographs, a pair of nearly identical photographs that creates the illusion of a three-dimensional image when viewed through a stereoscope.
Huntington Brothers, about 1874, courtesy State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1943.11.30
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2025