File ID f045p0255
Date.Digital2002-05-29
Date.Original1904
DescriptionCamp Lewis, or Tent City, was a community of tents set up to provide accommodations at reasonable rates for Lewis Publishing Company subscribers and others attending the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. In this photograph, tents are still being erected on property just west of the new Lewis Publishing Company headquarters. A wooden tent floor, a selling point for Camp Lewis, is visible in the foreground. Lewis' home is just west of the tents.
SourcePhotograph, laminated, damage lower left corner and lower center edge, damage upper corners, 9.19" by 6.56"
SubjectUniversity City (Mo.)--Pictorial Works
SubjectCamp Lewis (University City, Mo.)
Subject.KeywordHouses--Missouri--University City
TitleCamp Lewis, 1904 - View 1


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