M-171: St. Louis Views and Images

The St. Louis Views and Images Collection visually documents the history of St. Louis though various printed media--photographs, lithographs, engravings, illustrated newspaper tear sheets from Leslie's and Harper's, maps, postcards, advertisements, broadsides, and posters, as well as some original drawings. The materials provide images of St. Louis from the 1760s to the 1970s, however the largest amount of material in the collection dates from the nineteenth century. The physical collection is made up of six series, divided according to medium and then arranged chronologically within the series. Materials added after initial sorting are out of sequence. The series include (1) Publications, (2) Photographs and Prints, (3) Postcards, (4) Edward Thias Drawings, (5) Advertising, and (6) Broadsides & Posters. There is an additional series of various boxes of materials. An inventory of the different series can be found in the collection's finding aid.
St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Illustrations from Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Zeitung
Illustrations of various places and events are placed surrounding and inside of an unrelated text. The top left illustration depicts the islet of Tabarca near the coast of Tunis, Tunisia; the top right illustration depicts the city of Bona, Algeria (now known as Annaba); the center illustration depicts the arrival of the Turners (German-American gymnasts); the bottom illustration depicts the arrival of the festival procession in Schnaiders Garden on the evening of the 4th of June, 1881.

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