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| Title | Willows Farm, Woodinville, ca. 1926 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1926 |
| Notes | King County ran Willows Farm, which was also known as the "Lazy Husband Farm." Poor men, alcoholics, and the mentally ill were housed here and were put to work distributing milk and vegetables to the poor.
Handwritten on sleeve: Ca. 1926, King Cty. Poor Farm, "Lazy Husband" farm.
Note from EHC records: Lazy Husband Farm just below the stockade. Men in field going back to stockade. Men paid $2.00 a day.
Caption information taken from Seattle Times. |
| Subjects | Almshouses--Washington (State)--Woodinville
Detention facilities--Washington (State)--Woodinville
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| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Woodinville |
| Digital Collection | Eastside Heritage Center Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | L.92.2.8 |
| Ordering Information | To order a copy of this image or inquire about permissions, contact the Curator of Collections at (425) 450-1049 or P.O. Box 40535, Bellevue, WA 98015. |
| Repository | Eastside Heritage Center |
| Repository Collection | Marymoor Collection |
| Physical Description | 1 negative: b&w; 1 x 1 1/4 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
