Start of "million population", St. Louis – Antique 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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Start of "million population", St. Louis
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Start of 'million population'" is the title Bain News Service gave this 1910 glass negative, though the caption data behind it is unverified, so the exact scene is open to question. The phrase points to St. Louis's civic drive of the period, when boosters hoped to see the city pass a million residents. The 1910 census counted about 687,000, showing the goal was still out of reach. Bain's staff photographed many such moments of civic promotion, so the picture offers a glimpse of how the city presented itself at the time.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,235 × 5,797 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10006 |
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