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Photo Flood 126: Collinsville

Photo Flood 126: Collinsville

Photographer Mike Matney Home to the world’s largest ketchup bottle, Collinsville straddles Madison and St. Clair counties in Illinois; Belleville lies to the south, Edwardsville to the north, and is only 15 miles from downtown St. Louis. The city has a population of 24,366 according to the last census....

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Photo Flood 124: St. Louis Hills

Photo Flood 124: St. Louis Hills

Photographer Jim Harter St. Louis Hills is located in southwestern St. Louis. The first time Photo Flood STL visited the neighborhood was in August 2014. The boundaries are Chippewa Street to the north and northwest, Gravois Avenue to the southeast, and the St. Louis county border to the southwest....

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Photo Flood 122: Midtown

Photo Flood 122: Midtown

Photographer Joe Rakers Midtown has been the focus of two previous floods, Photo Flood 35 in June 2015 and Photo Flood 49 in August 2016.  In the 7 years since the last visit much has changed. With the addition of IKEA in the adjacent Central West End neighborhood the area has...

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Photo Flood 2: Bellefontaine Cemetery

Photo Flood 2: Bellefontaine Cemetery

photograph by Mandi Gray What do Thomas Hart Benton (the Senator), William S. Burroughs (the author), and William Clark (of “Lewis and Clark”) have together in common? The answer is that they are all interred at the sprawling, urban necropolis of Bellefontaine Cemetery. Bellefontaine Cemetery was established in 1849...

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Photo Flood 1: Downtown

Photo Flood 1: Downtown

  photograph by Jamie Kreher “St. Louis never disappointed me. She was there at every turn. Turn from the river with your back to the east, and you can see the dust of the prairies granulating the light. I’m tempted to say ululating, for there is a persistent tremor...

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