St. Louis 1, Missouri, 1895 – Antique Map Print
(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 1, Missouri, 1895, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: St. Louis in 1895
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St. Louis 1, Missouri, 1895
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St. Louis, Missouri, in 1895 was one of the largest cities in the country and the busiest river port west of the Mississippi's junction with the Ohio. Its population had passed 450,000 at the 1890 census, and its economy rested on river commerce, railroad freight, meatpacking, brewing, tobacco, and shoe manufacturing. The Eads Bridge, completed in 1874, carried rail traffic across the river, and the new Union Station, which opened in 1894, made the city a major rail terminal. Residents of the era knew St. Louis for its German-American breweries and its crowded riverfront, where steamboats, warehouses, and freight yards lined the levee below a grid of brick commercial blocks and working-class neighborhoods.
| Created / published | 1895 |
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| Creator | juehne, charles |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Louis 1, Missouri, drawn in 1895. 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 | 12,368 × 8,240 px · prints to 41 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | St. Louis in 1895 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489404 |
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