St. Louis 2, Missouri, 1896 – Antique Map Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: St. Louis 2, Missouri, 1896, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: St. Louis in 1896
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St. Louis 2, Missouri, 1896
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St. Louis, Missouri, in 1896 was a river city of roughly half a million people and one of the largest manufacturing centers in the country. Steamboats and barges worked the waterfront levees beneath the Eads Bridge, which had carried trains and wagons across the Mississippi since 1874. Breweries, meatpacking houses, tobacco works, and a large shoe industry employed workers in districts stretching south and west from downtown, while electric streetcars carried them out to neighborhoods of brick row houses. Residents knew the city for its German brewing families, its large German and Irish communities, and the ward politics that shaped city hall. The 1904 world's fair was still years away, but the city was already working to secure its place as a national center of commerce.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Creator | juehne, charles |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Louis 2, Missouri, drawn in 1896. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 12,224 × 7,264 px · prints to 41 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | St. Louis in 1896 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489418 |
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