St. Louis, Missouri: Mielke's Lunch Stand and the Hotel Francis – Antique Wall Art
(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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This historic photograph of St. Louis, Missouri: Mielke's Lunch Stand and the Hotel Francis brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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St. Louis, Missouri: Mielke's Lunch Stand and the Hotel Francis
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A lunch stand and a hotel share the frame in this 1907 to 1908 photograph of St. Louis, Missouri, which places a small, informal eating counter beside a larger lodging house on the same street. Such curbside stands were a familiar part of city life in that period, serving workers and travelers who wanted a quick meal at low cost. The catalog record is based on an older caption card and has not been fully verified, so the exact location and business details are best read as tentative. The scene still offers a useful glimpse of how commercial life crowded together in the city's busy downtown districts a few years after the 1904 World's Fair.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [between 1907 and 1908] |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Restaurants...--Mo.; Hotels--Mo.; Mo.--St. L-; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,243 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133455 |
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