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Photos of a new father figure in Hooverville in Portland, Oregon, near the Ross Island Bridge, from a Library of Congress website Hoovervilles and Homelessness from the Great Depression in Washington State Project , including photographs, paintings, maps, essays and first-hand accounts of life in Seattle's Hoovervilles.
English: Hooverville on Seattle waterfront, 1933. Alhambra Stucco Company at left was apparently at 3155 Elliott Ave, roughly even with the end of Denny Way (which doesn't quite make it west to Elliott; it ends at Western Ave.
English: Hooverville on the Seattle tideflats, Seattle, Washington, U.S., 1933. Point of view is at the foot of Atlantic St. near the Skinner and Eddy Shipyards ...
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
The Great Depression in Washington State Project is a multimedia web resource based at the University of Washington in Seattle. Created in the context of renewed economic hard times in 2009, the Project includes essays, maps, digitized newspaper articles and hundreds of rare photographs from the 1930s. [1]
These "Hoovervilles" were self-made communities of homeless people that followed their own rules and established their own society. Men, women, and even some children lived in these shantytowns and people from all different types of socio-economic backgrounds lived together, which was very uncommon during the time of segregation .
Here's a look at photos from inaugurations past. President-elect Donald Trump is set to take the oath of office for a second time on Inauguration Day. Here's a look at photos from inaugurations past.
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.