Five young women from prominent Olympia families pose in their club uniforms, holding oars aloft. Their straw hats, adorned with A.S.L. insignia, identify them as members of the Anti-Saloon League Boat Club, a temperance organization.
1872 photograph, Courtesy State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C2016.0.182
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2017