Looking Back’s theme for 2025 features Thurston County area photographers, artists, and their subjects. John Boyd Ellis was brought up in Olympia but moved to Arlington after graduating from Western Washington University. He and his son Clifford operated a successful photography and postcard business featuring scenes of Washington State. Many of them were of J. Boyd’s hometown, pictured here in a photo from around the 1930s. The location is Capitol Way looking north. Photograph selected and captioned by Deborah Ross on behalf of the Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum, https://olympiahistory.org.
Ellis Postcard, around 1930s