- Collection:
- King County Snapshots: A Photographic Heritage of Seattle and Surrounding Communities
- Title:
- Photo of Hooverville Church with African-American Minister
- Date of Original:
- 1931
- Subject:
- King County (Wash.)--Pictorial works
Seattle (Wash.)--Pictorial works
Historic sites--Washington (State)--King County--Pictorial works
Historic sites--Washington (State)--Seattle--Pictorial works - Location:
- United States, Washington, King County, Seattle, 47.60621, -122.33207
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In the midst of the great Depression hundreds of unemployed men converted an abandoned shipyard south of the Seattle's Pioneer Square into a "Hooverville" shantytown, making shelter out of anything they could find. It lasted as a successful community for nearly a decade.
- Local Identifier:
- 768
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/kccollects/id/638
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/iiif/2/kccollects:638/manifest.json
- Extent:
- 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.
- Original Collection:
- King County Museum Collections
- Contributing Institution:
- Washington State Historical Society
- Rights:
-
Photo of Hooverville Church with African-American Minister
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