Looking Back’s theme for 2025 featured Thurston County area photographers, artists, and their subjects. This photograph by Olympia photographer Alonzo Bixby Woodard is of James Tilton Pickett, the son of Confederate General George Pickett, and Sâkis Tiigang, a Haida woman. This photograph was taken when James was attending Union Academy in Olympia. James later attended art school and was a talented painter.
1877 photograph by A.B. Woodard, courtesy State Capital Museum Collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1949.1265.36
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2025