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M-514 Early St. Louis Glass Plate Photograph Collection
This collection of glass plate negatives depicts scenes of St. Louis at the turn of the 20th century including the construction of the 1904 World’s Fair in Forest Park, the newly built Compton Hill Water Tower, the Cathedral Basilica, the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts and Brookings Hall at Washington University, a variety of farm houses and homes around the city, steamboats along the riverfront, and families enjoying various activities, picnicking, shopping, etc.
St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
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- Wide Photograph of Elaborate Building Construction
- Photograph of the back of an elaborate building under construction. There is a path in the foreground that curves left, and trees line the base of the building. While the building is nearly complete, there are still workers on the roof standing among the scaffolding.
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- Wide Photograph of Missouri Botanical Garden
- Wide view photograph of the Missouri Botanical Garden grounds. The photo is facing the entrance to the garden down the main pathway. On either side of the path are beds of various plants and flowers with gardeners tending to them. There are visitors walking down the path, and there's a statue in the middle of the background. The main building and greenhouses stretch across the photo behind the statue.
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- Wide Photograph of World's Fair Construction
- Photograph of the building of World's Fair construction. The ground leading from the foreground to the background is wet and muddy, with patches of grass and foliage near the half-built structure. The scaffolding spans horizontally across the whole photo.
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- Wide Photograph of the Canadian Parliament
- Photograph of the Centre Block building of the Canadian Parliament; the angle of the photograph allows for nearly the entire building to be visible.
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- Wooded Photograph of World's Fair Construction
- Wooded photograph of 1904 World's Fair construction. Trees and bushes line the foreground and middle ground, leaving the building in the background. The structure stretches horizontally across the photo, with wooden scaffolding covering it. The roof is just beginning to be added to the building, and there are piles of lumber on the ground next to the trees.
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