Saint Charles, Missouri, 1869 – 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: Saint Charles, Missouri, 1869, 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: Bird's eye view of the city of Saint Charles, St. Charles Co., Missouri 1869
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Saint Charles, Missouri, 1869
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Saint Charles, Missouri, in 1869 was a river town of about the size its founders had known for generations, sitting on the north bank of the Missouri River about 20 miles west of St. Louis. Its position made it a place of passage: Lewis and Clark had started their westward expedition from the town in 1804, and wagon traffic bound for the Santa Fe and Oregon trails had long moved through its streets. Steamboats tied up along the levee to load farm goods and freight, while the railroad that had reached the town in the 1850s carried grain and livestock to market. Many residents were German-speaking settlers whose churches, breweries and shops gave the main streets much of their character. The map shows a town still shaped by the river, with its buildings set close together along the bluff and the water.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Saint Charles, Missouri, drawn in 1869. 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 | 8,112 × 6,384 px · prints to 27 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Saint Charles, St. Charles Co., Missouri 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489401 |
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