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A Hooverville in Seattle, 1933. Hoovervilles were shanty towns built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. The term was coined by Charles Michelson. [1]
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.
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.
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 Seattle General Strike of 1919 marked a period of labor unrest, and the city was hit hard by the Great Depression. Despite economic difficulties, Seattle developed as an arts center during this time. The Frye Art Museum and Henry Art Gallery were established, and artists like Mark Tobey and Morris Graves gained national recognition.
Seattle only has one other day in the official history books with more than 20 inches of snow in one day. A 20-inch snowstorm struck a young Seattle-Tacoma Airport south of the city in January 1950.
During World War II, the Hooverville was razed to make way for a huge supply depot run by the Army Quartermaster Corps, and after the war it became a base for the U.S. Coast Guard. As of 2003, the site was the location for several large container shipping terminals. Skinner & Eddy's Plant No. 1, meanwhile, has become part of Seattle's SoDo ...
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.