Looking Back’s theme for 2025 features Thurston County area photographers, artists, and their subjects. Viretta Chambers was the daughter of early Thurston County settlers Andrew and Margaret White Chambers. She married prominent Seattle resident Charles Denny. She was a talented and well-known photographer, establishing the Seattle Camera Club in 1895. This photograph commemorates a garden party that she held in 1901. Photograph selected and captioned by Deborah Ross on behalf of the Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum, https://olympiahistory.org.