1874St. Louis

The City of St. Louis

Parsons & Atwater; published by Currier & Ives.

Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph

What this plate shows

St. Louis from above the Mississippi: levee, steamboats, a packed riverfront, the city drawn climbing west from the water. A Currier & Ives bird’s-eye, not Camille Dry’s 110-sheet 1875 atlas, and not a photograph. Perspective without a surveyor’s scale.

Image type: Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
Source: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division; Wikimedia scan of the 1874 lithograph.
License: Public domain.

Collections where this plate appears

01U.S. bird’s-eye viewsGiant lithographs from an imagined high point. Not photographs. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Denver — as print shops sold them. Later sheets stay later. Added beside those, not in place of them: Annapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Louisville, Seattle, Leadville, Pittsburgh.