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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
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- Competitive Design for the Missouri Building, 1904 World's Fair
- A competitive design submission for the Missouri Building planned for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. The design was submitted by architect Isaac S. Taylor and the illustration was printed as no. 857 on May 28,1892 in American Architect and Building News.
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- World's Largest Bird Cage, Forest Park
- This image is a landscape view of the 1904 Flight Cage housed at the St. Louis Zoo. The aviary was originally constructed by the Smithsonian Institution for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Following the 1904 World's Fair St. Louis purchased the cage from the Smithsonian.
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