Throughout 2021 the Sunday Olympian’s Looking Back feature portrayed events and people from the Sylvester’s Window cityscape project. In the 1899 cityscape we see Bertha Eugley in front of her millinery (hat) store on 6th Avenue (now Legion). Late nineteenth century women would not dream of going out in public without a hat, and Mrs. Eugley made sure that those who could afford it had the opportunity to sport her latest, elaborate creations.
Ida B. Smith photograph, about 1900, courtesy State Capital Museum Collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1961.1185.38
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2021