The Great Depression was a difficult time to start a business, but Tate Henry Rogers did it anyways. She opened a gift shop and tea room in her home in 1929 and when times got tough, she moved herself and the store into the new Governor Hotel on Capitol Way in Olympia.
Visitors entering the parlor of a typical American middle class family’s home around the turn of the century would have noticed prominent displays of The photos of A. D. Rogers, from portraits of ordinary people to official portraits for state government, form an important record of a time gone by.