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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. Photos and details of a Hooverville in Seattle, Washington, from a King County, Washington website
Item 191876, Engineering Department Photographic Negatives (Record Series 2613-07), Seattle Municipal Archives. 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.
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.
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]
The Reel Inn, one of the Pacific Coast Highway's most iconic landmarks, burned in the fires, according to a GoFundMe page shared by the restaurant's social media and its owners.
During the Great Depression, Interbay was the site of one of Seattle's Hoovervilles. [10] From 1941 into the early 1970s, Smith Cove served as a supply depot for the United States Navy, before returning to use as a civilian port. A few buildings and warehouses can still be found on the site that trace back to that time, including Quarters A ...
It's a comment from president-elect Donald Trump that caught many people off guard. "We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America," he said.
A Japan Airlines plane taxiing across the tarmac at Seattle-Tacoma Airport Wednesday morning struck a parked Delta Airlines plane — leaving the planes damaged but nobody hurt, according to ...