St. Louis, Missouri, 1876 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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, Missouri, 1876, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of St. Louis : showing the new line of the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Ry. running into the Union Depot
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St. Louis, Missouri, 1876
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St. Louis in 1876 was a river city preparing to host the Democratic National Convention, which met there that June and nominated Samuel J. Tilden for president. The national centennial that summer drew attention toward Philadelphia, but St. Louis kept its own commercial pride, with wholesale houses, tobacco and meatpacking plants, and rail yards tying the city to the Missouri country and the West. Across the river, the National Stock Yards at East St. Louis handled cattle and hogs shipped in from the plains, and their pens and slaughterhouses gave the riverfront a constant smell and clatter. Residents of the city's older districts still lived close to their workplaces, while families with more money moved to newer streets farther west.
| Created / published | 1876 |
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| Creator | woodward, tiernan, and hale, lord, c. k. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Louis, Missouri, drawn in 1876. 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 | 7,560 × 3,944 px · prints to 25 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of St. Louis : showing the new line of the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Ry. running into the Union Depot |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489411 |
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