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Shantytown known as Hooverville near Elliott Ave. W. and W. John St., Seattle, Washington, February 7, 1933.
Title
Shantytown
known
as
Hooverville
near
Elliott
Ave.
W.
and
W.
John
St.
,
Seattle
,
Washington
,
February
7
,
1933.
Photographer
Lee
,
James
P.
(James
Patrick)
,
b.
1894
Date
1933
Notes
Shows
the
Lighthouse
Broom
Co.
at
131
Elliott
Ave.
W.
The
name
Hooverville
was
applied
to
homeless
shantytowns
which
sprang
up
during
the
Hoover
years
of the
Great
Depression.
On
verso
of
image:
""2-7-33.
Unemployed
people's
shacks
at
Elliott
and
John
St.""
Subjects (LCTGM)
Utility
poles--Washington
(State)
Subjects (LCSH)
Squatter
settlements--Washington
(State)--Seattle;
Depressions--1929--Washington
(State)--Seattle;
Lighthouse
Broom
Company;
Queen
Anne
(Seattle
,
Wash.);
Business
enterprises--Washington
(State)--Seattle
Digital Collection
James Patrick Lee Collection
Order Number
LEE059
Ordering Information
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Please cite the Order Number when ordering.
Negative Number
Lee
[20047]
Repository
University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository Collection
James P. Lee Photograph Collection. PH Coll 294
Object Type
Photograph
Digital Reproduction Information
Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 120 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 6 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 3/1999.
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