[St. Louis] Court House, St. Louis, Mo. – Antique Print
![[St. Louis] Court House, St. Louis, Mo., [1870s] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/61/6195be723acb-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [St. Louis] Court House, St. Louis, Mo., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[St. Louis] Court House, St. Louis, Mo.
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Stereo cards like this one let nineteenth-century viewers tour a city from their parlors, and this example shows the St. Louis Court House, the Greek Revival building on Broadway whose cast-iron dome rose over the old downtown near the Mississippi. The card was issued by Boehl & Koenig, a St. Louis studio, so it records a local landmark made for local and wider buyers. The courthouse also hosted the early trials in the Dred Scott freedom suit in the late 1840s, which gives the building significance beyond its architecture. The record dates the card only to the 1870s, so the exact year is uncertain.
| Created / published | [1870s] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo by Boehl & Koenig, St. Louis. Reference copy may be in County Court Houses of the United States microfiche 96 (E5). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Courthouses; Mo.--St. Louis; Photog. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 781 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146469 |
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