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The State Archives recently unearthed this 1961 Christmas photo of then Gov. Albert Rosellini, his wife, Ethel, and their five children taken in the Governor’s Mansion.

A State Archives staffer retrieved this 1884 Thanksgiving Proclamation by Watson C. Squire, who served as Washington’s Territorial Governor from 1884 to 1887. After Washington became a state in 1889, Squire was elected to the U.S.