Unemployed camp at City Hall Park near Third and Yesler, Seattle, 1939

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Image of Unemployed camp at City Hall Park near Third and Yesler, Seattle, 1939 — 1986.5.15173.1

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Unemployed camp at City Hall Park near Third and Yesler, Seattle, 1939

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Demonstrators erected this tent in City Hall Park with the sign 'Governor Martin's Starvation Camp No. 2' in response to King County's relief crisis. 'Camp No. 1' was in Spokane. The donated tent contained chairs and benches and there were plans to open a commissary there. Another tent was planned to hold foodstuffs donated by merchants to be distributed to those who were cut off the relief rolls.

Signs in image include: Hotel Reynolds, Free garage. Governor Martin's Starvation Camp No. 2.
Handwritten on negative: Relief tent -- City Hall Park.
Handwritten on sleeve: UNEMPLOYED, Seattle, camp, City Hall Park.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: April 24, 1939.

Caption information source: P-I research files

ID Number: 1986.5.15173.1

Date: 1939

Physical Description: 1 nitrate negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.

Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 1986.5.15173.1

Subjects: Government and Public Services, Great Depression