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Saint Louis City Street before Smoke Ordinance

1939

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Saint Louis City Street before Smoke Ordinance
  • Title
  • Saint Louis City Street before Smoke Ordinance
  • Date
  • 1939
  • Identifier
  • SCLS029
  • Description
  • Saint Louis city street seen before smoke ordinance, featuring the Club Continental, TWA sign, American Airlines sign, and police officer directing traffic. The remarkable success of the Saint Louis smoke control program made a strong impression on Pittsburgh, a city confronted with similar air pollution problems. Pittsburgh drew directly from this project to justify and foster its own environmental regeneration. See images SCLS027-SCLS032 for documentation of the Saint Louis program.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
    slides (photographs)
  • Subject
  • Air--Pollution
    Streets
    Buildings
    Signs and signboards
    Neon signs
    Men
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Saint Louis (Mo.)
  • Source
  • Smoke Control Lantern Slide Collection, ca. 1940s-1950s
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Smoke Control Lantern Slides
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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