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| Title | Photo of "Hooverville" shantytown on the Seattle waterfront, ca. 1930's |
| Date | 1930's |
| Notes | In October 1931, an unemployed lumberjack by the name of Jesse Jackson and twenty others started building shacks on vacant land owned by the Port of Seattle located a few blocks south of Pioneer Square and named the shantytown Hooverville in sarcastic honor of President Herbert Hoover on whose was in office when the Great Depression began. A census taken in 1934 counted 632 men and 7 women living in 479 shanties, with ages ranging from 15 to 73. Hooverville remained in existence until 1941 when a shack elimination program began and the shack towns were eliminated. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, contact The Washington State Archives, 3000 Landerholm Circle SE MS-N100, Bellevue, 98007-6484 |
| Credit Line | Washington State Archives; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Washington State Archives |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
| Accession/Acquisition Number | Collection #PS667-23A92A |
