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Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
C8538-2
Date(s)
- 1889 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
ca. 1889. Copy negative made July 6, 1939 of a photograph of the old Capital building in Olympia where the Constitutional Congress met in 1889 to prepare the document that completed Washington's transition from territory to state. The building is surrounded by a white picket fence. Several people relax in the grassy area next to building. Photograph ordered by Mr. Short of Tacoma Times. Photograph reproduced in the Tacoma Times 07-19-1939 p. 27 TPL-8245
Capitols--Washington Territory;