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Image of G.L Reichenbach's houseboat, Seattle, 1905
1983.10.7356.3
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G.L Reichenbach's houseboat, Seattle, 1905

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Houseboats have been popular in various parts of Seattle for many years. Plain and fancy summer houseboats showed up on Lake Washington soon after the opening of the Yesler cable car line in 1888. Both upper class and working class people lived in houseboats on Lake Union. There were speakeasy houseboats during Prohibition and working class houseboat dwellings on the Duwamish during the Depression.

This photo of G. L. Reichenbach's home was part of a feature on houseboats as a summer home published in the Seattle Times on August 6, 1905.

Note from MOHAI records: S.L. Reichenbach's home (pub. in Seattle Times, 6 Aug. 1905).
Handwritten on sleeve: Houseboat Int & Ext 1905.
Webster & Stevens number: 3335

Caption information source: "House Boats on Lake & Sound," Seattle Times, August 6, 1905, Magazine Section, p. 8.
ID Number: 1983.10.7356.3
Date: 1905
Creator(s): Webster & Stevens, Photographer
Physical Description: 1 glass negative : b&w ; 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
Credit: MOHAI, PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, 1983.10.7356.3
Copyright: No Known Copyright
Subjects: Home and Family

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