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Title: Substandard Dwelling Unites
Date: 1941-01
Description: Plate number seven. Obsolete dwellings breed slums. Slums are the direct outgrowth of obsolete substandard housing., From: Report / City Plan Commission of St. Louis. [St. Louis] : City Plan Commission of St. Louis. 1942.

Title: (G) Diagram of the State of Missouri
Date: 1849
Description: Map of the townships of the State of Missouri by the Office of the Surveyor General for the States of Illinois and Missouri. Saint Louis, October 28th, 1849. Shows previous boundaries of the State of Missouri, including the old Indian boundary line, the 1837 boundary line, and the west boundary line.

Title: The City of St. Louis Missouri.
Date: 1855
Description: An 1855 map of the city published by Joseph Hutchins Colton.

Title: Map of the City of St. Louis, Mo.
Date: 1846
Description: Edward and Julius Hutawa's map of the city of Saint Louis in 1846. Contains numbered local landmarks.

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: A View of the Aggregate Population of the several Counties in Missouri
Date: 1862
Description: This map shows the aggregate poplulation, with dots representing 1000 inhabitants, of the counties of Missouri according to the census of 1860.

Title: United States.
Date: 1843
Description: The map of the United States is from T. G. Bradford’s "A Comprehensive Atlas Geographical" (Boston: Wilkins and Carter, 1843).

Title: Alton and Southern System Map
Description: Small map of the A&S. Part of drawing B-1025-A

Title: Map of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas
Date: 1826
Description: 1826 map of the State of Missouri, with counties, mountains, towns and rivers included. Arkansas Territory is also mapped out similarly. Native American villages are noted to the west of Missouri.

Title: A Proposed Development of the Northern River Front Saint Louis
Date: 1929
Description: Plate 6. General Plan of the Proposed Northern Riverfront Development. Includes an airport, recreation center, forest, lagoon, beaches, yacht basin, and equestrian field., From: Plans for the northern and southern river front, Saint Louis, Missouri / City Plan Commission ; Harland Bartholomew, engineer.

Title: Plankarte der Deutschen Niederlassung
Description: 1830s map of German and American homes in the area east of Belleville, Illinois published in the German language newspaper Das Westland. The title translates to "Planning Map of the German Settlement: in St. Clair County Illinois, east of Belleville." It was published in Volume 1, Number 3 of Das Westland by the publishing company of Joseph Engelmann in Heidelberg. The map features the family

Title: City of Kirkwood
Date: 1908
Description: Map of Kirkwood, Missouri.

Title: St. Louis
Date: 1867
Description: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Title: Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Missouri.
Date: 1823
Description: From The Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea: 1823. Depicts Missouri at the time of statehood, which happened in 1820.

Title: Carte du Missouri Levee ou Rectisiee dans toute son Etendue
Date: 1805
Description: A map drawn in 1802 based on information gained in St. Louis about the vast lands outward from the city in all directions.

Title: Sketch of the A.T.&S.F. Ry. System Coast Lines
Description: Map showing western portion of AT&SF Railway and dates of construction of various portions of the railroad.

Title: Il Paese de’ Cherachesi, con la Parte Occidentale della Carolina Setenttrionale, e della Virginia
Date: 1778
Description: This map and the atlas it which it appeared were based on the important map by John Mitchell, one of the earliest English mapmakers to give an accurate representation of the Missouri and the central river system of the mid continent. Mitchell’s maps were influential for a century and, as seen here, were appreciated by an international following of mapmakers.

Title: Land en Volk-ontdekking in't Noorder Gedeelte van America, door P. Marquette en Joliet, Gedaan in't Jaar 1673.
Date: 1707
Description: An early printing of Marquette and Joliet’s travels in the Mississippi valley provided some of the first detailed maps and images of the region. This map from Marquette's book shows the various Native American tribes inhabiting the Mississippi River Valley region, from the Gulf of Mexico at the left-hand side of the map up the Mississippi River to Iroquois country.

Title: Regni Mexicani seu Novæ Hispaniæ, Ludovicianæ, N. Angliæ, Carolinæ, Virginiæ et Pensylvaniæ, necnon insvlarvm archipelagi Mexica
Date: 1759
Description: An interesting map of New Spain, in Latin, showing Louisiana demarcated from the Illinois country. On this map is shown knowledge of the Osage, the Missouri, and other tribes; the traditional French trading partners of the St. Louis region.

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