File ID f275p0924
Date.Digital2002-07-29
Date.Original1903
Date.Original1903-08-29
DescriptionIn 1903, Edward Gardner Lewis broke ground for the new headquarters and printing plant for the Lewis Publishing Company on Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis County. In this photograph workers are laying the foundation walls for the printing plant. Workers with a mule team are digging a trench down the middle of the site, probably for utilities. When completed, the building was 100 feet wide by 275 feet long.
SourcePhotograph, tear lower right corner, 8.21" by 6.15"
SubjectUniversity City (Mo.)--Pictorial Works
SubjectWoman's Magazine Building (University City, Mo.)
SubjectLewis Publishing Company (University City, Mo.)
Subject.KeywordPeople--Missouri--University City
TitleLaying the foundation for Woman's Magazine Building, 1903 - View 1


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