St. Louis, Missouri, 1904 – 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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St. Louis, Missouri, 1904 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic view of the wholesale and office district of St. Louis
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St. Louis, Missouri, 1904
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St. Louis in 1904 was hosting the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a world's fair that opened in late April on the grounds of Forest Park to mark a century since the United States bought the Louisiana Territory. Its exhibition palaces and lagoons drew visitors from across the country, and the city also hosted the Olympic Games that summer and autumn, the first held in the United States. Meanwhile, the wholesale houses, breweries, and rail yards kept working, and streetcars carried fairgoers from downtown to the western gates. The fair closed in December, leaving behind the buildings and grounds that would shape the park for decades.
| Created / published | 1904 |
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| Creator | juehne, charles |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Louis, Missouri, drawn in 1904. 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 | 3,184 × 1,368 px · prints to 11 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic view of the wholesale and office district of St. Louis |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489416 |
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