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.
Edward and Julius Hutawa's map of the city of Saint Louis in 1846. Contains numbered local landmarks., The Western metropolis : or St. Louis in 1846 / compiled by W.D. Skillman.
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)
Various illustrations and text from a page from a volume of Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Zeitung (Illustrated Newspaper). There is an illustration of the then-new Custom House and Post Office, Natives of the Gold Coast on an English steamboat, a worker's strike on English ships in Sierra Leone, people waiting for pubs to open in London, and a street fight between government troops and Carlists. The text surrounding the illustrations is not relevant to the illustrations.
Map of the townships of the State of Missouri in 1849. Map by F. R. Conway, surveyor of the public lands in the States of Missouri and Illinois. This map includes different boundary lines, including the old Indian boundary line, the old west boundary line, and the 1837 northern boundary lines.
This letter, by former President John Quincy Adams,
is in response to a request by the Mechanical Library Association of Baltimore for
Adam’s to speak at their facility at some future date. This association was connected
to and an outgrowth of the Baltimore volunteer Mechanical Fire Company, formed
by the company for member’s self education. Adams is informing them that he will not
be able to speak at the Association’s venue on the date requested. For a full description see the collection page.
This lithograph shows a street view of the St. Louis Courthouse in 1840. The image includes pedestrians on the street and looks North from Market and Fourth Streets.