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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: 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: 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: 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: Fracl. Township 45 N. R. 7E.
Date: 1847
Description: Hutawa came to St. Louis from eastern Europe in the early 1830’s with family members and settled in St. Louis, a home base for a lithography business which lasted for many years and which specialized in maps—some of the very first west of the Mississippi for an American city of any kind—and of the American west. See also Fracl. Township 45 N. R. 7E.: Confirmed Claims., Atlas of the County of St. Louis, Missouri by Congressional Townships compiled by Edward Hutawa. (St. Louis: Hutawa, 1848)

Title: Plan of St. Lewis
Date: 1826
Description: Collot’s maps of Louisiana were made in 1796 and were most likely planned for military intrigues and colonial conquest, but the work transcended its purpose in thoroughly documenting the earliest settlements of the Illinois Country. These plans were the most detailed to their time. Voyage dans l’Amerique Septentrionale ou Description des Pays arroses par le Mississipi, l’Ohio, le Missouri, et autres Rivieres Affluentes &c. Paris: Bertrand, 1826. Scale of 200 Fathoms., From Collot's work "Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale, ou Description des pays arrosés par le Mississippi, l'Ohio, le Missouri et autres rivières affluentes..." Published in Paris by A. Bertrand, 1826.

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

Title: St. Louis and adjacent Country
Date: 1822
Description: Melish accompanied his map of the region of St. Louis at the same time with glowing words for the city, the largest west of the Mississippi, with a reported census of 5000 inhabitants and 550 houses, “of which a great proportion were well constructed buildings of brick and stone.” He reported that St. Louis, “Standing near the confluence of such mighty streams, the produce of an almost

Title: Plan des Villages de la Contree des Illinois et partie de la Riviere de Mississipi.
Date: 1781
Description: Map from "A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina..." also by Hutchins. French title: "Description topographique de la Virginie, de la Pensylvanie, du Maryland et de la Caroline Septentrionale : contenant les rivières d'Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokée, Wabash, des Illinois, du Mississippi..." Published in Paris: Le Rouge, 1781.

Title: St. Louis, Mo.: Boundary of 1841
Description: Reproduction map by Norbury Wayman showing the boundaries of the City of Saint Louis in 1841. Population 16,469; 4.78 Square Miles.

Title: Map of the Lands Granted to the Pacific Railroad Company in 1852
Date: 1856
Description: Map of the lands granted to the State of Missouri by Act of Congress June 10, 1852, and by Act of the Missouri Legislature December 25, 1852 to the Pacific Railroad Company to aid in the construction of a railroad from St. Louis to the Western Boundary of the State, South of the Osage river said road known as the Soutwestern Branch of the Pacific Railroad. Map accompanying the 1856 Sixth Annual

Title: Map of the Eighth Federal Reserve District
Description: St. Louis, the metropolis of the district is the home of the Mercantile Trust Company and Mercantile National Bank, both members of the Federal Reserve Bank system. The combined deposits of these two institutions aggregate $32,169,674.84., Statement of responsibility: The Federal Reserve Bank with special reference to District No. 8 : the resources and chief products of the district / compiled and issued by Mercantile Trust Company and Mercantile National Bank.

Title: Birds Eye View of St. Louis
Date: 1876
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. This view is not drawn to scale, but does include an index to points of interest and two inset illustrations, of the "view of bridge from East St. Louis" and the "entrance to tunnel from Union Station."

Index: 1. U. Depot; 2. Four Courts; 3. Ent. Tunnel; 4. Post Office; 5. Court House; 6. Chamber of Commerce; 7. Genl. Office ST L. K.C.&N. RY.; 8. MO. Park; 9. Lafayette Pk.; 10. Shaws Gard; 11. Forest Pk.; 12. Fair Grounds; 13. North Park; 14. Bellefontain Cemetery; 15. Water Works, Statement of responsibility: Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1870, by C. K. Lord, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

Title: Wabash-Serving St. Louis Industries
Date: 1956-08, 1856-08
Description: Reverse side of map from the Wabash Railroad Company

Title: Mississippi No. 1
Date: 1825
Description: In the time of the flatboats and the coming of the first steamboats documented so well through the early American navigational river guides, maps clearly indicated a future problem for St. Louis and its highly praised river harbor—the city was essentially on a peninsula which could become a remote island due to floods and other naturally occurring circumstances over time. The many islands and sand bars in the river were alarming testament in early maps., The western pilot : containing charts of the Ohio River, and of the Mississippi from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, accompanied with directions for navigating the same, and a description of the towns on their banks, tributary streams, etc. Also, a variety of matter interesting to all who are concerned in the navigation of those rivers / by Samuel Cumings. Cincinnati : Morgan, Lodge and Fisher, printers, 1825.

Title: Map of the Country of the Illinois
Date: 1826
Description: Collot’s maps of Louisiana were made in 1796 and were most likely planned for military intrigues and colonial conquest, but the work transcended its purpose in thoroughly documenting the earliest settlements of the Illinois Country. These plans were the most detailed to their time., From Collot's work "Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale, ou Description des pays arrosés par le Mississippi, l'Ohio, le Missouri et autres rivières affluentes..." Published in Paris by A. Bertrand, 1826.

Title: Map of the Mississippi from St. Louis to the Marameck River
Date: 1811
Description: sand bars in the river were alarming testament in early maps. This map was an inserted extra leaf in the 1811 edition of Zadok Cramer's Navigator.

Title: Proposed Land Use 4 Development Plan 4
Date: 1967
Description: This ambitious plan was to develop riverfront north and south of downtown, as well as west., From: Saint Louis riverfront development plan. [St. Louis, Mo.] : City Plan Commission of Saint Louis, 1967.

Title: Proposed St. Louis County Arterial Road System
Description: Planning document.

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