st louis

Carte du cours du fleuve St. Louis depuis dix lieues audessus de la No...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows the lower Mississippi River from the vicinity of New Orleans to its mouth, east portion of lake Pontchartrain, and estuaries. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Map in 2 sections mounte... more

A plan of Fort St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Jago & of St. Philip scituat...

In lower margin: To his grace Iohn Duke of Montagu, this plan is most humbly dedicated by his graces, most dutifull & most obedient servant, Iohn Thomas. Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink and waterco... more

Carte particulière du cours du fleuve St. Louis depuis le village sauv...

Shows the Mississippi River in the vicinity of New Orleans from Colapissas to English Turn, lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, location of Native American settlements, fortifications, and natural features. Pen-a... more

Embouchures du fleuve St. Louis ou Mississipi. 1763.

Scale ca. 1:13,200. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Depths shown by soundings. "Tome I. No. 44." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 776 Available al... more

Carte de la coste de la province de la Louisiane et des bouches du Mic...

Scale ca. 1:700,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Soundings shown in fathoms. Shows the coast from "Baye de l'Ascencion," Louisiana to "Baye St. Joseph," Florida. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789,... more

Five hundred pounds reward. [For the capture of the Viginia built pilo...

Positive Photostat.; Printed in French and English.; Title.; Evans 15877. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemer... more

Dédiée a Monsieur Coustard de Massi, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Mil...

Print shows "Le Suffren," the balloon of Anne-Pierre Coustard de Massy and R.P. Mouchet, ascending from Nantes, France. (Source: Le Temps des Ballons, www.perso.wanadoo.fr.)

St. Louis Mo. St. Louis, C. Witter [18--?].

Panoramic view of St. Louis from the river, with other illustrations bordering a blank center area. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full tex... more

The progress of freedom. On the 6th of April St. Louis elected a mayor...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 71, Folder 23.

[Map of an area from Pearl River to Bay St. Louis in Spanish West Flor...

Tivoli. Le dimanche 22 aout, 1824, grand fete extraordinaire a l'occas...

Text-only broadside announcing a balloon ascension by Jean Margat, August 22, 1824, Tivoli, Paris, at a festival on the occasion of St. Louis Day. Text indicates Margat will stand on an oblong platform below a ... more

St. Louis skating rink waltz

LOT subdivision subject: Sports Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Published by Compton & Doan. Lithograph by Studley & Co. Date not recorded on caption card or item. Date bas... more

Map of the projected railway from Harrisburg to Pittsburg [sic] with p...

Outline map showing major drainage, some relief by hachures, state boundaries, canals, and important place names. Finished and proposed railroads are indicated.

Map of the projected railway from Harrisburg to Pittsburg [sic], with ...

Covers area between Massachusetts and Virginia and west to the Mississippi River. Shows "finished" and "proposed" railroads. A mileage chart entitled "Rail Road Routes from Seaboard to the Interior" appears at ... more

Lawless burning of men by the many

Print shows a Black man named McIntosh, who had stabbed an officer that had arrested him, tied to a tree and being burned, St. Louis, Mo., April 28, 1896; and text. Illus. in: Anti-Slavery Almanac, 1840, p. 23.... more

$500 reward!! Whereas the clerk's office of the steamboat Patrick Henr...

Reward.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 17, Folder 16.

Notice. The undersigned, having chartered the steam-boat Eagle for the...

Title.; Pinckard, P. M.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 17, Folder 5.

$200 Reward. Ranaway from the subscriber, on the night of Thursday, th...

Reward offered by Wm. Russell for apprehension of the slaves, St. Louis, 1 Oct. 1847. Reference copy may be in LOT 4422-A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI;... more

Map, exhibiting the railway route between Baltimore & St. Louis, toget...

Map covers area from Portland, Maine, to Norfolk, Va., and west to the Mississippi River. Scale 1:2,471,040. LC Railroad maps, 74 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Libr... more

[Xavier Donald MacLeod, half-length portrait, nearly facing front, wit...

Author, teacher, editor of the St. Louis Leader. Alternative identification: McLoud. Scratched on back of plate: Mc-Loud. Written in ink on back of plate: 434. Identification from engraving by Capewell & Kimmel... more

U.S. Reports: Mackay et al. v. Dillon, 45 U.S. (4 How.) 421 (1846)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 45; Howard Volume 4; January Term, 1846; Isabella L. Mackay, Executrix of James Mackay, Zeno Mackay, George Anthony Mackay, James Bennett Mackay, Reuben-Coleman and Eliza Lucy, ... more

$200 reward. Ranaway from the subscriber on the night of Thursday, the...

Map and view of St. Louis, Mo.

Includes illus. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 438 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651/1; 651/2

Republican extra--- St. Louis, March 5, 5. P. M. President Taylor's in...

0675 E 7 D 45.; $15.00.; On verso: 06755, .7245. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... more

Gunpowder for sale here / Oliver J. Stuart, N.Y.

Broadsheet advertisement for the Laflin Powder Company, Saugerties, New York, manufacturers of gunpowder, with "Offices [at] 29 Water St. cor. of Olive St. St. Louis Mo. and 79 South Water St. Chicago, Ill." sh... more

A map illustrative of the route of the proposed railroad : from St. Lo...

"The red line indicates the route of the Railroad. The green line is the route followed by Col. Fremont from the South Pass to Humboldt River."

A new map of the United States. Upon which are delineated its vast wor...

Detailed general map of the eastern half of the United States indicating drainage, state boundaries, state and county capitals, cities and towns, common roads, the "Oregon Route," canals, and railroads. One of... more

Skeleton map of rail-roads between Cape Canso and St. Louis,

Map of the Cairo & Fulton Railroad exhibiting the principal tributary ...

Map showing Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and part of Texas. Shows drainage, cities and towns, and state boundaries, west of the Mississippi River. The adjoining area east of the Mississippi River shows only t... more

Battle of Hermannstadt / sketched by Capt. Ed. Scheifele ; drawn on st...

Print showing a battle scene with Russian, Austrian, and Hungarian troops standing in formation, shooting at each other across an open field. Title from item. Caption continues: Where the Hungarians (March 11th... more

Rail road map accompanying the report an[d] exhibit of the Logansport ...

Map of the north-central and northeastern United States showing drainage, relief by hachures, place names, and state boundaries. Chartered as the Auburn and Eel River Valley Rail Road on March 8, 1853. Name cha... more

A correct map of the Pennsylvania Central Rail Road with its branches ...

Sketch map of the eastern United States showing the railroad network and emphasizing the routes between St. Louis and Chicago, and Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. Scale ca. 1:10,000,000. LC Railroad maps... more

Great Kansas meeting at St. Louis, Missouri / [from a photograph by Fi...

Crowd at public meeting on question of slavery in Kansas in front of the courthouse, St. Louis, Missouri. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 2, no. 40 (1856 Sept. 13), p. 209.

U.S. Reports: Long et al v. O'Fallon, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 116 (1856)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 60; Howard Volume 19; December Term, 1856; Reuben L. Long, John S. Penrise, and Amelia Penrise, his Wife, and Alice Penrise, by her Guardian, John S. Penrise, Complainants and A... more

Original air line and United States mail route! 1857. Spring arrangeme...

Cincinnati & St. Louis route. New York to St. Louis, Cairo, Vincennes,...

Transportation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 86, Folder 4.

Composite of eight illustrations showing skyline view of St. Louis, Mi...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, (1857 July 4), p. 429. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

1857 Pennsylvania central railroad, in direct connection with the Pitt...

Great western & south-western mail route to Cleveland Pittsburg, Colum...

Transportation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 122, Folder 15.

Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne, and Chicago R. R. in direct connection with the...

Transportation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 122, Folder 22... more

Mr. La Mountain's aerial voyage - the descent of the balloon

John La Moutnain's balloon voyage with John Wise and Gager from St. Louis to Rochester, 1859.

St. Louis Democrat to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, October 09, 1860 (Tel...

View of St. Louis, Mo. [Levee]

Purchase; Christie's, South Kensington; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:260).

Arrival of the Twenty-Second Indiana Volunteers, Colonel J.C. Davis, a...

Soldiers getting off steamboat. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 246 (1861 Sept. 14), p. 582.

Condensed time table. Westward of the Indiana Central, Terre Haute & S...

Transportation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 204, Folder 27a.

St Louis Daily Missouri, Friday, January 04, 1861 (Clipping)

Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., lately the scene of great exciteme...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 12, no. 293 (1861 June 29), p. 106. Caption card tracings: C.W. Units Militia Mo.; C.W. Camp scen... more

Elihu B. Washburne to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, October 19, 1861 (Te...

... My dear Sir: We take pleasure in calling your attention to this gr...

Transportation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 68, Folder 15.

Map of northern military movements: between New York & St. Louis

Scale ca. 1:5,800,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 14.35 This map was originally published as an inset on Charles Magnus's Complete Map of the Rail Roads and Water Courses, in the United States & Canada (see C... more

"United States Volunteers Attacked by the Mob, Corner of Fifth and Wal...

Engraving after M. Hastings. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1861 June 1), p. 349. Reference copy may be in LOT 4416 R (1861). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mi... more

Truman Woodruff to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, June 15, 1861 (Situatio...

The Gun-boat New Era, just built at St. Louis, Missouri / sketched by ...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 Oct. 12, p. 646.

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: S...

Clipping

United States Volunteers attacked by the mob, corner of Fifth and Waln...

Soldiers firing at crowd of people attacking them. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 231 (1861 June 1), p. 349 (botttom).

St. Louis Republican (newspaper), Saturday, October 26, 1861 (Clippin...

[Aerial view of commercial district of St. Louis, Missouri]

Issuing passes at St. Louis

Travel passes being issued to citizens by Federal government agents. Illus. in: Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War, 1862 March, p. 292. Copyright by Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden.

Capture of Fort Henry by U.S. gun boats under the command of Flag Offi...

Print shows four Union ironclads in the foreground, identified as the "St. Louis", "Carondelet", "Cincinnati", and the "Essex", bombarding Confederate Fort Henry in the background; also shows two Confederate st... more

St. Louis Citizens to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, December 19, 1862 (Res...

William A. Bryan to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, October 14, 1863 (Pro...

Lloyd's map of the lower Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf ...

Scale 1:316,800. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 41 "Exhibiting the sugar and cotton plantations, cities, towns, landings, sand bars, islands, bluffs, bayous, cut-offs, the steamboat channel, mileage, fortificatio... more

St. Louis B'nai B'rith to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, January 05, 1863 (...

L. J. Cist to Henry T. Blow, Monday, May 09, 1864 (Autographs for St....

Hard-scrabble, St. Louis County, Mo. / Heald & Stiff, phot.

Copyright, Harry Boggs. Three tax revenue stamps on back of mount. Printed on mount: A correct copy of the residence, in St. Louis County, owned and occupied by General U. S. Grant before the Rebellion, facetio... more

Hon. James Eads of Mo. (Built the St. Louis Bridge)

To the Congress of the United States of America: Your memorialists, ap...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 236, Folder 7.

[St. Louis] Court House, St. Louis, Mo.

Exterior view, with open lantern. Stereo by Boehl & Koenig, St. Louis. Reference copy may be in County Court Houses of the United States microfiche 96 (E5). This record contains unverified, old data from captio... more

Olympic

Theater, St. Louis. Stereo by Boehl & Koening, Saint Louis, Mo. No. 114. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arch. Colls.; Photog. I.; Theaters Mo.; Mo. St. L-; Shelf.

U.S. Reports: St. Louis v. The Ferry Company, 78 U.S. (11 Wall.) 423 (...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 78; Wallace Volume 11; December Term, 1870; St. Louis v. The Ferry Company

The great race on the Mississippi: from New Orleans to St. Louis 1210 ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2864

Address of the State Republican Committee to the people of Missouri. A...

Political campaign. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 86, Folder 15.

City of St. Louis /

Shows city wards and selected landownership. Includes index. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

On the Mississippi - St. Louis - a general view of the city from east ...

River scene with house and steamboat RICHMOND in fg. Illus. in: Every Saturday. 14 Oct., Boston, 1871, p. 390 and p. 391. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card traci... more

Railroad map of Pennsylvania Company showing the Pennsylvania Railroad...

Map of the middle Atlantic and midwestern states showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroad network with names of lines and mileage between stations.

Views of the great ice gorge of February 1872, in the Mississippi rive...

1733 U.S. Copyright Office. Caption on this photograph is torn. Title comes from the printed caption on a duplicate image. Photograph numbers relate to key on the back of the mount: "No. 1 Nicholas Longworth, N... more

Map showing the line of the Louisville, New Albany, and St. Louis Air ...

Map of the middle Atlantic and central United States showing drainage, cities and towns, state and county boundaries, and the railroad network with emphasis on the main lines. Indicates coal field in Illinois a... more

Juliet, fine cut, chewing tobacco - James Moran & Co., St. Louis / Ave...

Tobacco package label showing balcony scene between Romeo and Juliet. C6216D U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by James Moran & Co.

Map of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and its connections.

Map of the central portion of the eastern United States between the Atlantic and St. Louis showing drainage, cities and towns, counties, roads, railroads, and iron and coal deposits. Scale ca. 1:1,500,000. LC R... more

St. Louis fair grounds / St. Louis Democrat Litho. & Print. Co. ; draw...

Print showing bird's-eye view of fairgrounds at the St. Louis fair. 11770 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1874, by Compton & Company, in the Office of t... more

U.S. Reports: City of St. Louis v. United States, 92 U.S. 462 (1876)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 92; October Term, 1875; City of St. Louis v. United States

Missouri--The great Whisky Ring trial--Scene in the United States Dist...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1876 February 26, pp. 400-401.

Birds eye view of St. Louis : showing the new line of the St. Louis, K...

LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 439.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ill. and index to points of interest.

The Jackson Monument and [St. Louis] Cathedral

Dr. Price's cream baking powder Steele & Price, manufacturers, Chicago...

Advertising card for Dr. Price's cream baking powder, showing two women, one of them stirring batter in bowl.

F. Heim & Bro. brewing company, lager beer, East St. Louis

Print of advertisement for the F. Heim & Bro. Brewing Company showing a man holding up a glass of beer, and a bird's-eye view of the brewery.

[St. Louis Co., Mo.].

Shows names of landowners. Title supplied by cataloger. LC Land ownership maps, 407 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy in mylar, mounted on cloth back with red an... more

Maps showing the Toledo, Cincinnati, & St. Louis Railroad and its conn...

Midwestern states showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, coal in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Includes the railroad system with emphasis on the main line. Scale 1:1,267,200. Inset: ... more

Carthage. La Cathédrale / ND Phot.

Exterior of Cathedral of St. Louis, Carthage, Tunisia. Title from item. No. 335.

Carthage. L'intérieur de la Cathédrale / ND Phot.

Interior of the Cathedral of St. Louis, Carthage, Tunisia. Title from item. No. 339.

[The St. Louis bridge.] The erection -- the ribs completed and the roa...

Photograph shows view of the St. Louis Bridge under construction, spanning the Mississippi River. Title from item. Illus. in: A history of the St. Louis bridge; containing a full account of every step in its co... more

Map showing the Kansas & Gulf Short Line R.R. and the Texas & St. Loui...

Detailed map of the central portion of the United States showing drainage, cities and towns, and the iron and timber areas in Texas. Indicates the railroad network with emphasis on the main lines. 16532 U.S. Co... more

U.S. Reports: St. Louis v. Knapp Co., 104 U.S. 658 (1882)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 104; October Term, 1881; St. Louis v. Knapp Company

"Esmeralda" waltz-lanciers. Arranged for the Esmeralda Club, of St. Lo...

Created for the Esmeralda Club of Saint Louis, this short pamphlet consists of five figures of a waltz quadrille with a brief explanation of each figure.

Map of the Rio Grande and Pecos Railway showing its connections with t...

Outline map of the U.S. Southwest showing major drainage, cities and towns. Railroad lines are named and narrow gauge lines are in red. The "Cannel Coal Field" is indicated. 8159 U.S. Copyright Office Scale not... more

Pen picture of the progress of the city of St. Louis, Mo.

Shows views of St. Louis between 1784 and 1884. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 440 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651/1

Exposition Building, St. Louis, Mo.

The road to Washington

Print showing gameboard for a game "The road to Washington" with "Washington" at the top and "Grand Central Depot" near the bottom with connecting routes through the cities of "Philadelphia", "Newark", "Baltimo... more

U.S. Reports: St. Louis v. Myers, 113 U.S. 566 (1885)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 113; October Term, 1884; St. Louis v. Myers

Declaration of independence. The unanimous declaration of the thirteen...

On verso: {stamp} Property of the Library of Congress. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Por... more