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Image of Hooverville on South Massachusetts Street : unemployed shacks, 1931 , October 27, 1931.
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Hooverville on South Massachusetts Street : unemployed shacks, 1931 , October 27, 1931.
During the Depression of the 1930s, over 600 unemployed and homeless people lived in shacks just south of the downtown area, on the site of an abandoned shipyard. They built the shacks out of scraps of lumber, cardboard, tarpaper, canvas, and tin which they found around the waterfront. This area was known as Hooverville, named after the American president whom…
ID Number:SHS8767
Date:1931
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