Transportation &
Communication
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Roads, railroads, and waterways all helped connect regions within the State of Missouri. Each type of transportation played an important role in Missouri's growth and development.
Commissioners official railway map of Missouri
Description: Shows relief by hachures, drainage, names river valleys, indicates cities and towns and county boundaries. The only color is the red showing the names of the various railroads.
Date: 1902, Scale: 1:760,320. : W 96¦00'--W 89¦00'/N 40¦30'--N 36¦00', Published: St. Louis, Mo. : Higgins & Co., Mapmaker: Missouri Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners.
L.A. Wilson's railroad & township map
Date: 1876, Scale: ca. 1:1,450,000, Published: Chicago,Ill : published by Geo. F. Cram, proprietor of the Western Map Depot, Mapmaker: Wilson, Lewis A.
Railroad terminal map
Description: Also includes the proposed route of the Merchants' Terminal Railway Co. and the location of the Merchant's' Bridge, now in course of construction, also the route of the proposed belt of the St. Louis Bridge & Tunnel Railway Co. Railroads colored in red.
Date: 1888, Scale: ca. 1:32,300, Published: St. Louis, Mo. : R. P. Studley & Co. Lith.
Official railroad map of Missouri
Description: Railroad map shows rivers, railroads (completed and proposed), county seats, and R.R. stations. Township map shows rivers, property ownership and improvements. From: An illustrated historical atlas of Mercer County, Missouri -- Philadelphia, PA : Edwards Brothers, 1877 -- p. 49-50.
Date: 1877, Scale: 1:1,774,080 and 1:31,680, Published: Philadelphia., Pa. : Edwards Brothers, Mapmaker: Edwards Brothers of Missouri
Railroad map of St. Louis
Description: Shows ward boundaries.
Date: 1921, Scale: ca. 1:66,000, Published: [St. Louis, Mo. ?] : C.E. Smith & Co., Mapmaker: St. Louis Chamber of Commerce--Engineers Committe
Automobile road map
Description: Shows improved and unimproved roads, railroad and electric railroad lines, townships, counties, sections and surveys.
Date: 1916, Scale: ca. 1:202,752, Published: St. Louis, Mo. : A.C. Shewey, Mapmaker: Mosberger, W. A.
Berry Company's road map of Missouri
Description: Main roads shown in red, other roads in black. Also shows railroads, county seats, towns. State divided into 12-1/2 mile squares. : The Jackson County inset also shows: wagon roads, creeks & springs, Macadamized roads, churches, school houses. Inset: The Berry Co's road map of St. Charles & st. Louis Counties, Mo. 21 x 25 cm. Scale ca. 1:297,792. Inset: The Berry Company's road map of Jackson County, Mo. 19 x 18 cm. Scale ca. 1:253,440.
Date: 1911, Scale: ca. 1:1,029,600, Published: Kansas City, Mo. : Berry Company, Mapmaker: Berry Company
Higgin's Road Map
Description: Shows pikes, county roads, and railroads. Includes City of St. Louis, St. Louis County and parts of St. Charles County (Missouri) and parts of Madison County and St. Clair County (Illinois).
Date: 1895, Scale: 1:31,680. 'Half inch per mile.', Published: St. Louis, Mo. : Higgins & Co., Mapmaker: Higgins & Co.
Missouri county seat highway map
Description: Shows county seat roads in red with road no. and mileage. Also steam and electric railroads, rivers, cities over 5,000, county seats, bench marks, and elevation at railroad stations.
Date: 1918, Scale: ca. 1:760,320, Published: Jefferson City, Mo. : Missouri State Highway Department, Mapmaker: Missouri. State Highway Dept.
Missouri state road map
Description: Shows state roads in red. Also steam and electric railroads, rivers, cities over 5,000, county seats, bench marks, and elevation at railroad stations.
Date: 1918, Scale: ca. 1:760,320, Published: Jefferson City, Mo. : Missouri State Highway Department, Mapmaker: Missouri. State Highway Dept.
Geological map of south-west branch
Description: Includes 'Geological section along the south-west branch' and 'Distances from Saint Louis to points on south west branch, Pacific R. Road.' furnaces, copper, copper furnaces, zinc, coal mines, railroads in operation/unfinished. Also shows geological features via shading and letters. From: 'Geological section along the line of the southwestern branch of the Pacific Railroad, State of Missouri / by G.C. Swallow -- St. Louis, 1859 -- :
Date: 1859, Scale: ca. 1:582,000. : Vertical scale 1:14,400. 1200 ft. to an inch., Published: St. Louis, Mo. : Lith. by Schaerff & Bro., Mapmaker: Swallow, G. C. (George Clinton), 1817-1899
Kennedy's Sectional Map of St. Louis
Description: Includes street index. : Includes Illinois Town (East Saint Louis) and Brooklyn, both in Saint Clair County, Illinois.
Date: 1859, Scale: ca. 1:25,500, Published: [St. Louis] : R.V. Kennedy, Mapmaker: Robert V. Kennedy & Co.
Map of St. Louis
Description: Shows electric, steam, and belt steam railroads.
Date: 1910(?), Published: [St. Louis, Mo.] : St. Louis, St. Charles & Western Railroad, Mapmaker: St. Louis, St. Charles & Western Railroad
Pilot's map of St. Louis County
Description: Shows roads; steam and electric railroads; city, township and section lines.
Date: 1914, Scale: ca. 1:95,040, Published: St. Louis, Mo. : engraved and published by O. Schrowang, Mapmaker: Schrowang, O.
Plat of St. Louis and East St. Louis
Description: Inset: Plan of Union Station and approaches, Mill Creek Valley from the tunnel west to Spring Ave. Scale 1:6,00 12 x 36 cm.
Date: 1923, Scale: ca. 1:31,680, Published: [St. Louis, Mo.?] : [s.n.], Mapmaker: Mosberger, W. A.
Transportation map of Missouri
Date: 1904, Scale: ca. 1:2, 534,000. W 96¦00'--W 89¦00'/N 40¦30'--N 36¦00', Published: New York : Julius Bien & Co., Lith., Mapmaker: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.)--Missouri Commission
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