An edition of Capturing the City (2016)
Capturing the City
Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis, 1900 - 1930
By Joseph Heathcott,Angela Dietz
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Publish Date
Jun 15, 2016
Publisher
Missouri History Museum Press
Language
eng
Pages
308
Description:
"The St. Louis Street Department in 1900-1930 took thousands of photos to document municipal challenges and improvements, inadvertently capturing detailed scenes of everyday life. The images reveal the national trend among cities to use the camera as a documentary tool, and they showcase the city of St. Louis at the turn of the century"--