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.
This document contains the twenty-first annual report of the board of directors of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and a report on the sixteenth annual meeting of the Mercantile Library Hall Company. It was compiled in January of 1867 and covers the events of the year 1866.
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.
WHAT TO SEE AND HOW TO SEE IT, IN AND AROUND THE CITY, COMPRISING NOTICES OF EVERY OBJECT OF INTEREST TO STRANGERS INCLUDING public buildings, churches, hotels, public halls, places of amusement and recreation, parks, gardens, libraries, reading rooms, literary institutions, etc., etc., WITH CITY MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
This document contains the twentieth annual report of board of directors of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and a report on the fifteenth annual meeting of the Mercantile Library Hall company. It was compiled in January of 1866 about the events of the year 1865.
Chouteau Ave. looking east from 15th St.
Even back in 1866 they were eternally fixing the streets, like this scene at Fifteenth and Chouteau. Thirty years later the city boasted 350 miles of "fully improved" streets, the best "sprinkled" thoroughfares in the country. Today the city has 997 miles of paved streets.
This document contains the nineteenth annual report of the board of directors of the Mercantile Library Association and a summary of the fourteenth annual meeting of the Mercantile Library Hall Company. The contents of this report were assembled in January of 1865 for the year 1864.