Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis, 1900 - 1930

by Angela Dietz and Joseph Heathcott

During the first two decades of the twentieth century, the St. Louis Street Department generated one of the most extensive troves of photographs ever taken of the city. Ostensibly created to document municipal challenges and improvements, the images inadvertently captured richly detailed scenes of everyday life. Largely led by Charles Clement Holt (1866-1925), St. Louis's photography operation expanded until it produced about six thousand images per...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883982979
• ISBN13: 9781883982973
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.9" x 10.9"