Visual Resources – Photographs and Videos

Photographs

The Society’s website maintains a small collection of photographs in our image bibliography. Many more photographs and links to photographs are available for viewing in our Where Are We?, Looking Back, and Who Are We? features. The following is a list of the additional photograph collections on our website.

• Downtown Olympia Historical Postcard Display
• Selected Photographs from Susan Parish Collection
• Bigelow House Photograph Collection
• Furgison collection

Videos and Films

• As Long as the River Runs.  1971 documentary on the native treaty fishing rights movement. [via YouTube]
• The Bigelow House, produced in 1992 to promote preservation of Bigelow House as a Museum [via YouTube]
  • Bigelow House YouTube channel, videos on Olympia and Bigelow House history
• Calvin Johnson’s Walking Tour of Olympia [via YouTube]
• Couple Weds Atop a Smokestack, news footage of June 8, 1929 wedding
• Farewell to the 4th: Link to the Past, Gateway to the Future, (2001) VHS about the Fourth Avenue bridge.
• Greenwood Builds an Ark (1929) footage of “prophet” William Greenwood’s ark in West Olympia [Critical Past via YouTube]
• Liberty Theater grand opening (1924) now the Washington Center for the Performing Arts [City of Olympia, via YouTube]
• Now Where Were We? Youtube series of short videos on Olympia area history
• The Null Set Remembered, history of the 1960s coffee house, with musical performances from CD release party [via YouTube ]
• On the Road Series: Visit to Olympia, WA 2014 [via C-Span]
  • Bigelow House
  • Washington State Capitol Building
  • Olympia Oysters and the Shellfish Industry
• Origins of the Evergreen Geoduck Mascot [TESC via YouTube]
• Paget, John. Go With the Flow: A Film About Olympia, Washington.  Paget Films, 2002 (available at Timberland Library)
• President Truman Visits Olympia (1945) Universal Newsreels [via YouTube]
• “Faces and Places” Series [via TVW]
  • Tivoli Fountain
  • Washington State Legislative Building
  • Dolliver Building [Old Post Office]
  • War Monuments on the Capitol Campus
  • Washington State Archives
• U.S. Civil Defence Operation “Alert” (1956) national nuclear strike preparedness drill; Olympia footage at 0:2:30 [via British Pathe News]
• State Capital Museum lecture series, [via YouTube]
  • On the Homefront: WWII in Olympia
  • “End of the Oregon Trail” Marker Rededication
  • Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman’s Live on Oyster Bay
  • The Schneiders of Schneider Creek
  • George & Isabella Bush
• Schmidt Mansion History Talks [Tumwater TV and Thurston Community Media via Youtube]
• Three alarm fire at Yard Birds, 1999 [via YouTube]
• The Story of Olympia, a series of four shows originally produced at TCTV, re-posted on Youtube by producer Joe Illing.