Looking Back’s theme for 2025 featured Thurston County area photographers, artists, and their subjects. Frank L. Camp (sometimes spelled Camps) established his Olympia studio in about 1891. He specialized in ambrotype portraiture. Pictured here is Clark Savidge as a young mail carrier. Frank Camp later moved to Ashland, Oregon. Clark Savidge entered public service, eventually becoming Commissioner of Public Lands.
Frank Camp photo, about 1891, courtesy of State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1949.8.20
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2025