Over 100 years of Senate group photos

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1895 Senate group photo

(Images courtesy of Washington State Digital Archives)

With the Legislature a month into its scheduled 105-day session, it’s worth taking a look back – or waaay back – at past legislative bodies. Thanks to Washington’s Digital Archives, it’s easy to do. The Digital Archives has a new search feature that’s under the Collections tab. By clicking it on, you’ll see a current list of collections available to explore. It has a wide range of photos, including portraits of territorial and state governors, secretaries of state, and collections by notable photographers like A.M.Kendrick. It also includes group photos (actually, it’s a collection of individual portraits, but they call it a “group photo.”) of the House of Representatives and Senate going back to Washington’s territorial days. The featured photos here span 100 years of the State Senate. Above is a group photo of the 1895 Senate, and below is a group photo of the 1995 Senate, which is the most recent of the Senate group photo collections. If you look closely, you’ll see there are a few senators from 1995 still serving in the “upper chamber” today. Let us know if you can name them! Since opening in 2004, the Digital Archives has preserved more than 115 million records, including over 37 million that are searchable. The DA is part of the State Archives.
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1995 Senate group photo

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