Historic Photos of St. Louis

by Adele Heagney (Text by), Jean Gosebrink (Text by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683369684
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	09/01/2007
Series:	Historic Photos
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Adele Heagney has worked in Rare Books, Youth Services and branch management for the St. Louis Public Library. She found her niche as the library's St. Louis History Specialist. She has a B.A. in journalism from the University of Wisconsin, and master's degrees in American history and library science from the University of Maryland. She and her husband, Mike Woolard, live in the Shaw neighborhood with dogs Gabby and Mona and Maisie the cat.

Jean Gosebrink is the Special Collections Specialist at St. Louis Public Library. She has worked at Indiana University Library and the Library of Congress. She has a master's degree in library science from Indiana University and a master's in African area studies from the University of California-Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

While a lot of books of this nature tend to have a very narrow focus, this book gives an excellent overview of St. Louis over the course of a century -- from the 1860s to the 1960s . . . While providing a glimpse of St. Louis in its prime, this book also gives the reader a better understanding of the impact of a national trend -- urban sprawl -- on our fair city. And, rather than presenting the reader with opinions on the effect of urban sprawl on St. Louis, it simply presents facts about the images, and allows the reader to string these facts together into his or her own opinion of what has become of a once-great urban area.

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