Constable On a Horse During the East St. Lous Race Riots · WRSTL PLACE

Item sets: Digital Public History Class; African American Photos and Prints at the Missouri Historical Society; St. Louis Topic: Fire Fighters, Police Officers and Related

Title: Constable On a Horse During the East St. Lous Race Riots
Description: Horizontal, black and white photograph showing a constable on a horse during the East St. Louis race riots. The horse has stopped on the sidewalk in front of the Daniel E. Skudwick Drugstore, and several men are walking through the foreground. A partially legible caption is written in pencil on the back of the photograph.
Creator: Underwood and Underwood, New York
Subject: Riots; Race Riots; East St. Louis Race Riots; African Americans; Daniel E. Skudwick Drugstore
Temporal Coverage: 1917
Medium: UK
Format: Photograph
Date: 1917; No Known Copyright
Source: Missouri Historical Society, Photos and Prints Department
Identifier: P1024-00003