In this image, 29 children pose together on the steps in front of the Washington Territorial University Building, vacated in 1895 after university's (now University of Washington) move to its current location north of downtown. The Seattle School Board leased the old university building from 1898-1899 due to overcrowding at Central School (now referred to as Central II). The university building was demolished in 1908 and since 1924 has been the site of the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel.

The only person identified in this image is Olga Alfhild (Dahlquist) Winston (1886-1975), the fourth person from the left in the front row. Olga was born in Washington, the oldest child of parents who emigrated from Sweden in the 1870s. Olof Peter Dahlquist (1848-1903) and Alfhild (Bildt) Dahlquist Crabill (1865-1944) lived with their children in Seattle, at least through 1889, when Olof is listed as the proprietor of the Jewel Saloon. The saloon was lost in the Seattle Fire in 1889 and rebuilt on or about the same location as before the fire, near Pioneer Square, on the south side of Yesler Avenue (now Yesler Way) between Commercial Street (now First Avenue South) and Second Avenue. Some time before 1900 the family moved to Springbrook, an area approximately where the border between Kent and Renton is now.

Handwritten on verso: In back of original University of Washington. About 1898. 5th grade. Olga Dahlquist 4th from left in 1st row.

Caption information source: Thompson, N., & Marr, C. J. (2002). Building for learning: Seattle public school histories, 1862-2000. Seattle, WA: Seattle Public Schools.