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Title: The City of St. Louis
Date: 1874
Description: In the 1870s the great American tradition of bird's eye views became a popular way of depicting the seemingly limitless potential and growth of the great American cities. St. Louis was no exception and several documented the city's prominence in this period. Bird's eye view of the city of St. Louis from the waterfront stretching west. Important places are listed at the bottom of the view: Carondelet, Shaw's Botanical Garden, Compton Hill Reservoir, Market, Insane Asylum, Gas House, R. C. Convent, St. Louis & Iron Mt. R.R. Depot, Pacific and Missouri R.R. Depots, City Hall (Four Courts), St. James Hotel, Southern Hotel, Washington Sq., Masonic Temple, Jewish Synagogue, Laclede Hotel, Court House, Planters House, New Post Office, Missouri Republican Bldg., Missouri Park, New Post Office, St. Louis University, Odd Fellows Hall, St. Louis Life Ins Co, Union Market, New Reservoir, Mississippi Bridge, Fair Grounds, Hyde Park, St. Louis Kansas & Northern R.R., Elevator, Northern Park, Water Works. Many steamboats and much commerce can be seen in the foreground., Statement of responsibility: Sketched & Drawn on Stone by Parsons & Atwater.

Title: Campbell's Political Map of Missouri
Date: 1872, 1873
Description: Engraved expressly for his sectional topographical & descriptive atlas of the state. Contains congressional districts, counties, judicial circuits, cities, roads, railroads, and rivers. Entered according to an act of Congress in the year 1872., From: Campbell's new atlas of Missouri : with descriptions historical, scientific, and statistica. Maps constructed and drawn on the polyconic projection / by R.A. Campbell.

Title: Plan of Forest Park
Description: Plan of Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, about 1876. Scale 400 feet to 1 inch.

Title: Central Township Map of St. Louis County
Date: 1878
Description: Red line is the New City Limit, with everything east part of the City of Saint Louis and everything west part of Saint Louis County.

Title: A Topographical Map of Forest Park
Date: 1876
Description: Topo map of Forest Park in Saint Louis, Missouri. Scale is 400 ft. to the inch.

Title: The City of St. Louis Missouri.
Date: 1872
Description: Despite the tagline, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." this map seems to be an updated version of Colton's 1855 map that appeared in an 1872 atlas.

Title: Steamboat Wharf Locations at St. Louis
Date: 1953
Description: This map, plotted out by Norbury Wayman, shows the various locations of steamboat lines and related companies on the St. Louis levee, detailing three periods of time; before 1865; 1865 - 1900; and 1900 - 1953. Lines and companies are donated by name, location and years of operation. Nearby streets are mapped as well, for easy frame of reference. Scale in feet: 100 ft. = 1 inch.

Title: Map of the Central Pacific Rail Road of California : and its connections.
Date: 1871-08-01, 1871-08-01
Description: Map and timetable for the Central Pacific Railroad in 1871.

Title: Saint Louis, Fort Scott and Santa Fe Air Line Railroad
Date: 1870, 1870

Title: Map Showing Boundaries of St. Louis at Different Periods
Description: This undated and unsigned map of the boundaries of St. Louis shows the growth of the city at different periods: 1780, 1822, 1839, 1841, 1855, 1860, and 1876.

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