St. Louis, Missouri, 1874 – 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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This antique map of St. Louis, Missouri, 1874 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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St. Louis, Missouri, 1874
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St. Louis in 1874 was still a city of river commerce, with wholesale houses, warehouses, and foundries strung along the Mississippi and its population past 300,000. Its streets were filling westward, and the Missouri Botanical Garden, founded by the merchant Henry Shaw and opened to the public in 1859, drew visitors to the grounds south of the city's older core. Across the state, lawmakers were writing a new constitution that voters would adopt in 1875, a document shaped by the bitter politics left from the Civil War and Reconstruction. In the schoolrooms of Carondelet, Susan Blow was running a kindergarten that would later be counted as the first public kindergarten in the United States, a notable step for a city that prized its educational institutions.
| Created / published | 1874 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Louis, Missouri, drawn in 1874. 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 |
| Original scan | 4,984 × 3,488 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489410 |
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