View of the St. Louis from a Pruitt-Igoe roof
View of the St. Louis Central Business District, one mile to the east, from a Pruitt-Igoe roof. The Gateway Arch is partially obscured by the Mercantile Center, a forty-story office building under construction at that time. The Pruitt-Igoe building in the foreground shows the results of a demolition...
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1975
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17321.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8026 |
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| Summary: | View of the St. Louis Central Business District, one mile to the east, from a Pruitt-Igoe roof. The Gateway Arch is partially obscured by the Mercantile Center, a forty-story office building under construction at that time. The Pruitt-Igoe building in the foreground shows the results of a demolition experiment of April, 1972. The Pruitt-Igoe buildings were a public housing project, completed in 1956, in St. Louis, Missouri. (September 1975) [Photographer E. A. Tomey. Scan of image PHO 54.8.20a] |
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