St. Louis, Missouri, 1848 – 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.)
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A window into the past: St. Louis, Missouri, 1848, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Map and view of St. Louis, Mo
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St. Louis, Missouri, 1848
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St. Louis in 1848 was the leading river town of the upper Mississippi, where steamboats crowded the levee and goods moved between the Ohio valley, the Missouri country, and the overland trails to Santa Fe and Oregon. The city had grown several times over since the 1830s, and German immigrants, many arriving after the failed revolutions of 1848 in Europe, were filling the breweries, shops, and neighborhoods on the north and south sides. The fur fortunes of earlier decades had given way to warehouses, foundries, and milling, and merchants were pushing for a railroad to the Pacific, a charter the state legislature would grant in 1849. The city was still built close along the river when a fire and a cholera outbreak would tear through its waterfront and crowded streets the following year.
| Created / published | 1848 |
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| Creator | kershaw, james m. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Louis, Missouri, drawn in 1848. 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 | 3,448 × 2,816 px · prints to 11 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Map and view of St. Louis, Mo |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489407 |
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