St. Louis, Missouri, 1897 – Antique Wall Map
(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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures St. Louis, Missouri, 1897 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: [St. Louis]
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St. Louis, Missouri, 1897
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St. Louis in 1897 was a city of wholesale houses and freight, and the Union Station on Market Street, which had opened in 1894, sent trains out in every direction. Its clothing, tobacco, and shoe factories were still recovering from the hard years after the 1893 panic, and goods moved through its warehouses by rail and river. Streetcar companies were extending electric lines to new subdivisions, letting clerks and skilled workers move into houses on the western edge of town. Each autumn the Veiled Prophet pageant, a masked procession organized by local businessmen, filled downtown streets and remained one of the city's best-known public spectacles. The 1900 census would later count more than half a million residents, growth that this map captures street by street.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Louis, Missouri, drawn in 1897. 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 | 3,053 × 2,683 px · prints to 10 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [St. Louis] |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489415 |
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