Looking Back’s theme for 2025 features Thurston County area photographers, artists, and their subjects. Little is known about photographer Oscar Sternberg, who established a photographic studio in Olympia in 1902. This photograph by Sternberg, taken in 1905, shows members of the Olympia Police Department posing in front of then-City Hall on Fourth Avenue, currently the location of the Fourth Ave Tav. Image selected and captioned by Deborah Ross on behalf of the Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum, https://olympiahistory.org. Oscar Sternberg photo, 1905, courtesy of State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society