Historic Photos of St. Louis
St. Louis is the largest city in Missouri and the "Gateway to the West," a moniker symbolized since 1965 by the mighty Gateway Arch fronting the Mississippi River.
Historic Photos of St. Louis is a photographic history of this important American city spotlighting photographs collected from the area's top archives. Included here are the Eads Bridge, the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, Busch stadiums 1 and 2, Union Station and the Milles Fountain, yesterday's Olive Street, aftermath of the 1896 tornado, Grant's Hardscrabble, the Admiral, the Southern Hotel, Forest Park, and much more.
In stunning black-and-white photography, this handsome coffee-table book details the historical growth of St. Louis from the early days of the camera up to recent times. Spanning two centuries and nearly 200 images, the book follows life, government, and the building of this history-rich city, offering a compelling look into the past for any longtime resident and every history buff of St. Louis.
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Book details
- Author
- Adele Heagney
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- St. Louis history · Missouri · historical photography · Gateway Arch · St. Louis World's Fair · Eads Bridge · Forest Park · Mississippi River
- ISBN-13
- 9781683369684
About the authors
ADELE HEAGNEY is a reference librarian at the St. Louis Public Library and co-author, with Jean Gosebrink, of Historic Photos of St. Louis.
Heagney is associated with the St. Louis Room, the library’s local history collection housed on the third floor of Central Library. She has led guided tours of the St. Louis Room and given presentations on identifying historic photographs in the library’s collections.
JEAN GOSEBRINK is a special collections librarian and archivist at the St. Louis Public Library’s Central Library and co-author, with Adele Heagney, of Historic Photos of St. Louis.
Gosebrink edited Saint Louis: An Annotated Bibliography on the City and Its Area and authored an article on St. Louis Central Library at 100 in The Confluence in 2013. She processed numerous archival collections, including the Alfred Fleishman Papers and the Media Archive Oral Histories Collection, and donated and processed the St. Louis Journalism Review Collection.
Jean lives in St. Louis, Missouri.