Looking Back’s theme for 2025 featured Thurston County area photographers, artists, and their subjects. This image by local photographer Michael O’Connor, likely from the early 1900s, shows the Northern Pacific depot in downtown Olympia, to the south of the Fourth Avenue bridge.
Michael O’Connor photograph, early 1900s, courtesy Moody Collection, Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2025