St. Louis, Missouri, 1896 – 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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This rare antique map captures St. Louis, Missouri, 1896 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Saint Louis in 1896
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St. Louis, Missouri, 1896
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St. Louis in 1896 was still recovering from the depression that followed the Panic of 1893, and its wholesale houses and factories were slowly taking on orders again. That June the Republican National Convention met in the city and nominated William McKinley, while the free-silver fight that divided Missouri voters carried into the newspapers and saloons. Electric streetcars were replacing horsecars on many lines, letting clerks and mill hands who worked downtown settle in neighborhoods farther out. Residents knew the city for its breweries, shoe factories, and tobacco works, and for the railroad yards that kept freight moving west and south. Forest Park, beyond the western edge of town, was still being shaped into the green space that later generations would come to know.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Creator | graf, fred |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Louis, Missouri, drawn in 1896. 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 | 12,256 × 8,160 px · prints to 41 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Saint Louis in 1896 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489414 |
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