Olympia High School domestic science class at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909

A group of Olympia High School students poses for a publicity photograph in 1909. Vocational education was a revolutionary concept in the early 20^th century. To demonstrate its potential, Oly’s domestic science class opened a model kitchen at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle and served six-course meals there, to astonished and rave reviews. 

1909 photograph, courtesy Washington State Historical Society, State Capital Museum collection, catalog C1943.126.4

Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2017