St. Louis, Missouri, 1859 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of St. Louis, Missouri, 1859. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Our city, (St. Louis, Mo.)
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St. Louis, Missouri, 1859
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St. Louis in 1859 was a river city of roughly 160,000 people, and its wholesale houses supplied merchants across Missouri and the upper Mississippi country. Factories along the riverfront and in the north side turned out hemp bagging and rope, tobacco goods, and iron castings, and the city's commerce ran on credit extended by eastern banks. The Dred Scott case, decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1857 after it began in the St. Louis courts, was still being argued in the city's newspapers and parlors. St. Louis was a slaveholding border city, and its residents were divided as sectional tensions over slavery grew sharper in the months before the 1860 election.
| Created / published | 1859 |
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| Creator | a. janicke & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Louis, Missouri, drawn in 1859. 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 | 7,720 × 5,608 px · prints to 26 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Our city, (St. Louis, Mo.) |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489408 |
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