In 1914, photographer Robert Esterly took photographs of Olympia businesses and their owners. Pictured here is the Haskin and Peele shoe shop, located at 406 Fourth Avenue East (current site of the Clipper Café). The owners James Haskin and Robert Peele are likely two of the three men posing in front of the shop.
Robert Esterly photograph, 1914, Courtesy State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1961.498.7
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2022