Looking Back’s theme for 2025 features Thurston County area photographers, artists, and their subjects. Photographer Agnes L. Mitchel operated a studio on 4th Avenue, near Jefferson Street, starting in 1891. In 1894 she married widower Benjamin Price. Her sister, fellow photographer Ida B. Smith, took over the studio. Ida took this photograph of the Price family in 1907; Agnes is seated at the rear of the left-hand automobile. Photograph selected and captioned by Deborah Ross on behalf of the Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum, https://olympiahistory.org.
Ida B. Smith photograph, 1907, courtesy State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society