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Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs

Meacham Park aerial, 1955

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Photographs This gallery includes photographs from the collections of the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Kirkwood Historical Society, and other sources. It includes early images of Elmwood Park, including Elmwood Park School, 1922, Robert Tutt, Elmwood Park, ca 1920, and Elmwood Park class, 1929 House; and a series of photographs taken just before redevelopment in the mid-1960s: Elmwood Park, circa 1965, Ramshackle house, Elmwood Park, circa 1965, Small child and house, Elmwood Park, circa 1965, Junkyard, Elmwood Park, circa 1965, House and yard, Elmwood Park, circa 1965, House and car, Elmwood Park, circa 1965,Elmwood Park, 6th Grade Class, 1960. Images from Meacham Park include Mary Payne, Meacham Park, ca 1920, J. Milton Turner School, Meacham Park, Meacham Park YMCA, 1951, Meacham Park aerial, 1955, House in Meacham Park, circa 1966, Small house in Meacham Park, circa 1966, Working on a house in Meacham Park, circa 1966 , and Sewer Construction at River Des Peres, 1922.
Historical Maps These maps include an early map of St. Louis County, 1920; early plat maps of Meacham Park 1893; Ferguson 1893; and Elmwood Park 1894; and two aerials of Meacham Park (one taken in 1955 before the construction of I-44): Meacham Park Aerial 1955; Meacham Park Aerial 2013. It also includes a full set of the redevelopment assessments and plans for Elmwood Park drafted in the 1960s: Elmwood Park Urban Renewal Project Plan; Elmwood Park Urban Renewal Zone Plan; Elmwood Park Urban Renewal Street Plan; Elmwood Park Urban Renewal Right of Way Plan; Elmwood Park Urban Renewal (sewers); Elmwood Park Urban Renewal (gas and water); Elmwood Park Urban Renewal (electrical); Elmwood Park Urban Renewal Topography; Elmwood Park Urban Renewal, Existing Land Use; Elmwood Park Urban Renewal, Structural Survey; Elmwood Park Urban Renewal, Neighborhood; Elmwood Park Urban Renewal, Land Disposition; Elmwood Park Urban Renewal, Watershed.