St. Louis, Missouri, 1884 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of St. Louis, Missouri, 1884. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Pen picture of the progress of the city of St. Louis, Mo
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St. Louis, Missouri, 1884
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St. Louis in 1884 was a city of about 350,000 people, a count it had reached in the 1880 census, and it ranked among the largest cities in the country. Its economy rested on wholesale trade, boot and shoe factories, tobacco plants, and breweries, with German brewers on the south side shipping beer well beyond Missouri. Railroads converged on the city from every direction, and freight moved into a riverfront that still depended on the steamboats crowding its levee. Families who could afford it were leaving the crowded older districts near the water for newer streets to the west, where the land being developed toward Forest Park was becoming a favored address.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | vogel, henry f. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Louis, Missouri, drawn in 1884. 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 | 8,197 × 5,842 px · prints to 27 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pen picture of the progress of the city of St. Louis, Mo |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489412 |
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