High School St Louis, Missouri, 1911 – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: High School St Louis, Missouri, 1911, preserved in this historic image. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: New Sumner High School
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High School St Louis, Missouri, 1911
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In 1911 St. Louis, Missouri, was one of the largest cities in the country, with about 690,000 residents and an economy built on shoe manufacturing, tobacco, brewing, and river commerce along the Mississippi. The 1904 World's Fair had drawn national attention to the city only a few years earlier, and its civic leaders were investing in public institutions to keep pace with that growth. The public high school served a steadily expanding population of students, many from families who worked in the factories, warehouses, and rail yards that stretched along the riverfront and the rail lines to the west. A panoramic view of the school and its students captures a generation being prepared for the office, the shop, and the industrial economy that defined the city.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Creator | sexton, h. w. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,582 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | New Sumner High School |
| Reference | MO High School St Louis 1911 |
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