File:Houseboat on Lake Washington - near University of Washington , ca 1908 (MOHAI 6939).jpg
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[edit]English: Houseboat on Lake Washington : near University of Washington , ca. 1908
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Oakes Photo Company |
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English: Houseboat on Lake Washington : near University of Washington , ca. 1908 |
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English: 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 shows a houseboat on Lake Washington, near the University, around 1908. After the opening of the Ship Canal in 1917, the lake level dropped about nine feet. Almost all Lake Washington houseboats had disappeared by the end of World War II.
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English: Washington, Lake (Wash." Seattle (Wash.) |
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| Date | circa 1908 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: b&w |
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| Dimensions | height: 17 cm (6.6 in); width: 25 cm (9.8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Museum of History and Industry |
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| Credit Line | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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