St. Louis, Missouri, 1873 – 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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St. Louis, Missouri, 1873 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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St. Louis, Missouri, 1873
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St. Louis in 1873 was a city of 310,864 people by the 1870 census, and its riverfront remained the center of its trade. James B. Eads was building a steel-arch bridge across the Mississippi, sinking its piers through the riverbed with pressurized caissons, and the span would open in 1874 as the first bridge to cross the river at St. Louis. The panic that struck the country in September 1873 brought bank failures and stalled trade in the wholesale houses that had leaned heavily on eastern credit. Meanwhile, German-speaking residents had built breweries, singing societies, and gymnastic halls on the north and south sides, and horsecar lines were carrying families away from the crowded old river district.
| Created / published | 1873 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Louis, Missouri, drawn in 1873. 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 |
| Original scan | 7,328 × 4,816 px · prints to 24 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489409 |
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