Richard Rudisill: Glass negatives of 1896 St. Louis tornado ruins

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22 glass plate negatives documenting the extensive tornado damage in St. Louis and East St. Louis, Missouri from the historic "Great Cyclone" of May 27, 1896. The photographs may have been made in July 1896. 1 Lafayette Park from the west 2 Saxon Church 3 Thomas Hart Benton Statue, Lafayette Park 4 City Hospital from southeast 5 City Hospital from northwest 6 Waverly Place, looking north 7 Brown Tobacco Co. (18th &Choteau Avenue) 8 Park &Ohio Avenues, looking east 9 Waverly Place (Taken July 22, 1896) 10 Union Club (Lafayette &Jefferson Avenues) 11 Scullin Car Shed from south 12 East side of Mississippi Avenue opposite Park 13 Anchor Hall (Park &Jefferson Avenues) 14 St. Paul's Lutheran Church (9th &Lafayette) 15 Missouri Avenue, looking south 16 Lafayette Park Methodist Episcopal Church (Sky Opaqued) 17 The Pool, Lafayette Park 18 Unidentified Ruins 19 Missouri &Lafayette Avenues 20 Lafayette Park Methodist Episcopal Church 21 Mt. Calvary Church 22 Unity Church

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Richard Rudisill

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