Thelma Blumberg Photograph Collection, 1940-1980 (S0402)
1 cubic foot, 43 folders, 5850 photographs
This collection contains photographs taken by Thelma Blumberg, a freelance photojournalist, who created a large volume of photographs in the late 1950s and 1960s in a location that came to be known as Gaslight Square. Her photographs documented the neighborhood near the intersection of Olive and Boyle at a time when that area changed from a quiet antique row into one of the country’s most popular entertainment districts. In the 1960s, Blumberg ‘s journalistic photography often appeared in the Sunday Magazine section of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, in the St. Louis Scene Magazine, and St. Louis Magazine.
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