print email comment close Hoovervilles in Seattle URL: http://www.seattle.gov/CityArchives/Exhibits/Hoover/ Description: An online exhibit devoted to the clusters of makeshift packing box shacks erected in Seattle after the stock market crash of 1929. Features images of documents such as fliers distributed by the homeless, petitions, reports, excerpts from articles, and the inaugural addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Includes explanatory notes about the documents, photographs, and a bibliography. From the Seattle Municipal Archives. Publisher: City of Seattle Extra Keywords Herbert Hoover Great Depression Skinner and Eddy Shipyard Library of Congress Subject Headings: Depressions -- 1929 Homelessness Seattle (Wash.) -- History LII Database Information: Record 12469 created by Margaret Myhre on 02/05/2005 Last modification on 09/03/2008 Published: 02/05/2005   Funding agency: Washington State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12469