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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 year in 1914. Many of these photographs were lost, but a
city historian salvaged a collection of three hundred glass plate
negatives in the 1950s, which are now in the Missouri Historical
Society collections. This small, but superb, group of photographs
provides a wealth of information on the visual culture of St. Louis
during a period of rapid transformation. Capturing the City is the
first book to examine these photographs, placing the people and
landscapes depicted within the broader context of a swiftly
urbanizing and industrializing metropolis. Collected and analyzed
here by Joseph Heathcott and Angela Dietz, the compelling images in
Capturing the City reveal the national trend among cities to use
the camera as a documentary tool. Reformers Jacob Riis and Lewis
Hine imagined the camera as a truth-telling instrument and used
their photographs to mobilize public consciousness. Across the
nation, cities used photographers to document slums, workhouses,
and crime scenes, as well as municipal improvements like street
lighting, pavement, and model housing. In this vein, Holt and his
staff showcased both the challenges and the successes of government
action in St. Louis. Consistent with their Progressive-era peers,
their efforts contributed to the record of ongoing public works
while shaping the narrative of urban progress itself.
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