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Maps of Missouri history, economy, art, and politics help illustrate the various events that shaped the life and times of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Ground plan of Louisiana Purchase Exposition - 1
Description: Indicates coal mines; coal, zinc, lead ores; lead furnaces; mills; coal meltures; lower carboniferous. Also shows rivers, railroads, towns.
Date: 1904, Scale: 1:6,660. '555 ft. = 1 in.', Published: St. Louis : O. Schrowang, Mapmaker: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, MO.)
Ground plan of Louisiana Purchase Exposition - 2
Description: Includes index of 187 buildings and exhibits.
Date: 1904, Scale: ca. 1:3,600, Published: St. Louis : Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Mapmaker: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, MO.)
Ground plan of Louisiana Purchase Exposition - 3
Description: Indicates names of exhibits and includes index to state buildings and model city.
Date: 1903, Scale: ca. 1:3,600, Published: St. Louis : Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Mapmaker: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, MO.)
St. Louis World's Fair: May to December, 1904
Description: Includes index of buildings and exhibits.
Date: 1903, Scale: ca. 1:10,800, Published: Buffalo, NY : J.N. Matthews, Co., Mapmaker: Woodward and Tiernan Printing Company
Map of part of the City of St. Louis - 1
Description: Shows the city south of Calvary Cemetery and east of Forest Park. Oriented with north to right. : Explanation: 'Outline figures give number of wards; blue figures give number of inhabitants per acre; red figures give death rates per 1000 inhabitants'. : Shows: 'Total population, 383,006; Total area, 39,214.6 acres; Population per acre, 9.8; Average deaths per 1000, 21.35.' : Includes table that gives, by ward, the number of inhabitants per acre and the death rates per 1000 inhabitants.
Date: 1884, Scale: 1:26,400. '2200 ft. per inch.', Published: St. Louis : A. Gast & Co., Mapmaker: American Public Health Association Meeting (12th : Saint Louis : 1884)
Map of part of the City of St. Louis -2
Description: Shows the city south of Calvary Cemetery and east of Forest Park. Oriented with north to right. Explanation shows color coding: green 'shows districts sewered and supplied with water;' blue 'shows districts supplied with water;' yellow 'shows districts sewered.' : Shows 'Water-pipe in use April, 1884, 238 miles; Public and district sewers completed April, 1884, 223 4/10 miles; Private sewers, about 58 4/10 miles.'
Date: 1884, Scale: 1:26,400. '2200 ft. per inch., Published: St. Louis : A. Gast & Co., Mapmaker: American Public Health Association Meeting (12th : Saint Louis : 1884)
Map of part of the City of St. Louis - 3
Description: Shows the city from south of Calvary Cemetery and east of Forest Park. Shaded areas show the death rate per 1000 of population. States that the 1866 population was 204,000; deaths from cholera, 3,527; deaths from other causes, 5,379.
Date: 1884, Scale: ca. 1:26,400. 2200 ft. per inch., Published: St. Louis : A. Gast & Co., Mapmaker: American Public Health Association Meeting (12th : Saint Louis : 1884)
Map of the city of St. Louis
Description: Inset: [Northern extension of city].
Date: 1910, Published: St. Louis, Mo. : Public Service Commission, Mapmaker: Saint Louis (Mo.) Public Service Commission
Description: Shows existing and proposed parks and reservations; also, main travelled roads and proposed parkways and boulevards.
Density of population east of Grand Ave
Description: Shows the city of St. Louis, east of Grand Ave. and north of Utah St. Shows parks, playgrounds, public schools, and public baths. Population density per city block is shown by hand coloring and numbering.
Date: 19(?), Scale: ca. 1:25,000 not '1 inch:600', Published: St. Louis, Mo : Public Baths Commission, Mapmaker: Saint Louis (Mo.) Public Baths Commission
Industrial map of the Carondelet
Description: Shows 119 sites of public buildings, factories, and businesses. Compiled from official records & surveys by E.R. Kinsey & Bros., surveyors
Date: 1910(?), Published: St. Louis, Mo. : Carondelet Business Men's Association, Mapmaker: E.R. Kinsey & Bros.
Geographical, Statistical, and Historical map of Missouri
Description: Appears to be no. 34 detached from: A complete chronological, and geographical American atlas..., Carey and Lea, 3rd ed., cor. and impr., Philadelphia, 1827. -P.L. Phillips, A list of geographical atlases..., no. 1177, p. 608-609.
Date: 1827(?), Scale: ca. 1:2,340,000, Published: Philadelphia : Carey & Lea, Mapmaker: Lea & Febiger
Geographical, Statistical, and Historical map of Missouri
Description: Appears to be detached from : A complete historical, chronological and geographical American atlas ... / H.C. Carey and I. Lea, Philadelphia, 1823. -- no. 34.
Date: 1823(?), Scale: ca. 1:2,340,000, Published: Philadelphia : Carey & Lea, Mapmaker: Lea
Map of Forest Park
Date: 1882, Scale: 1:4, 800. 'Scale of 400', Published: St. Louis, Mo : R.P. Studley & Co., Lith., Mapmaker: Link, Theodore C. (Theodore Carl), 1850-1923
University of Missouri at Columbia
Description: Shows main campus, science quadrangle, horticultural grounds, and farm quadrangle. Names 43 buildings.
Date: 1914, Scale: 1:ca.4800, Published: [Columbia, Mo.] : [University of Missouri], Mapmaker: Major, H. F.
Map of Washington County, Missouri
Description: Shows lead, zinc, iron and copper mines; lead, zinc and iron furnaces; grist and saw mills.
Date: 187(?), Scale: ca. 1:84,480. 3/4 in. to one mile, Published: St. Louis, Mo : Lith. by A. Gast & Co., Mapmaker: Will, F.
Mineral resources of Missouri
Description: Shows mineral deposits, mills, smelters, and plants.
Date: 1944, Scale: ca. 1:600,000, Published: Baltimore, Md. : A. Hoen & Co., Mapmaker: A. Hoen & Co.
Zoological Park of St. Louis
Description: Situated in Southwest part of Forest Park, bounded by Government, Washington, Concourse and Wells Drives, about 1500 feet wide x 2900 feet long - 77 acres. : Estimated cost when completed $2,000,000.00.
Date: 1919, Scale: 1:1,800. 1 in.=150 ft., Published: St. Louis, Mo. : Zoological Society of St. Louis, Mapmaker: Muskopf & Irish Company
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