St. Louis, Missouri, 1893 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with St. Louis, Missouri, 1893, an antique map rich in period detail. 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 '93
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St. Louis, Missouri, 1893
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St. Louis in 1893 was a city of more than 450,000 people, the second-largest in the country's interior after Chicago, and its economy rested on wholesale houses, shoe and clothing factories, tobacco works, and breweries. The Anheuser-Busch brewery on the south side and its German neighbors had made beer a major export, and the city's shoe factories earned it the nickname "Shoe City." That spring the Panic of 1893 spread bank failures and falling orders through the Mississippi valley, and mills and warehouses along the river cut back. Across the country, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago drew travelers and dollars that might otherwise have come to St. Louis. Residents on the near north and south sides still walked to work, while the streets westward toward the park kept filling with houses.
| Created / published | 1893 |
|---|---|
| Creator | graf, fred |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Louis, Missouri, drawn in 1893. 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 | 11,904 × 7,680 px · prints to 40 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | St. Louis in '93 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489413 |
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