{"title":"Missouri","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacsimile reprints of Sanborn fire insurance atlases, county and state atlases, and other historical works for Missouri.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1876-pictorial-st-louis-the-great-metropolis-of-the-mississippi-valley","title":"1876 Pictorial St Louis The Great Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis facsimile reproduces Pictorial St. Louis, the Great Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley: A Topographical Survey Drawn in Perspective A.D. 1875, by Camille N. Dry, designed and edited by Richard J. Compton, published in St. Louis in 1876 by Compton \u0026amp; Company with engraving by the Western Engraving Co. Pictorial St. Louis is one of the supreme achievements of American bird's-eye view cartography — an extraordinarily ambitious 110-plate panorama that depicts every building, street, wharf, and landmark in the city of St. Louis as seen from an imagined elevated vantage above the Mississippi River. Dry spent the better part of a year sketching the city block by block, and the resulting work is more accurate and more exhaustively detailed than any other nineteenth-century bird's-eye view of an American city. Published in the immediate aftermath of the 1874 opening of the Eads Bridge — the engineering marvel that connected St. Louis to the East and confirmed the city's standing as the great metropolis of the Mississippi Valley — the atlas captures St. Louis at the height of its Gilded Age prominence, when it was the fourth-largest city in the United States and the principal commercial gateway between the eastern industrial centers and the western frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note on This Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original Pictorial St. Louis was issued as an oversized folio in landscape orientation, with each plate printed across a single broad spread. To make this facsimile readable at standard book trim sizes, each original landscape page has been split across two facing pages in this edition, preserving the full detail of Dry's draftsmanship at a legible scale. Please note that surviving copies of the original 1876 edition show staining, foxing, and edge wear consistent with their age, and traces of this condition may appear in the reproduced images.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas presents a continuous perspective view of St. Louis covering more than twelve square miles of the city as it stood in 1875, drawn from an elevated viewpoint that allows every individual building to be rendered in three dimensions with remarkable fidelity. Each plate is keyed to a numbered index identifying churches, schools, hospitals, factories, breweries, hotels, banks, railroad depots, government buildings, residences of prominent citizens, and commercial establishments throughout the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA classified index and an extensive directory section identify hundreds of named businesses, institutions, and properties featured in the views, including major firms such as the American Central Insurance Company, the American District Telegraph Company, the American Wine Company, the Belcher Sugar Refinery, the Cotton Compress Company, the Pacific Railroad of Missouri, the St. Louis Cotton Factory, the St. Louis Insurance Company, the Liggett \u0026amp; Myers Tobacco Company, the Lindell Hotel, the Globe-Democrat Office, the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, the Mississippi Valley Transportation Company, the Merchants' Exchange, Planters' House, the Polytechnic Building, the Southern Hotel, Washington University, and many more. Schools, churches, breweries, foundries, mills, public markets, the courthouse, custom house and post office, and the major railroad and steamboat infrastructure that made St. Louis the principal commercial hub of the central United States are all individually identified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for historians of nineteenth-century American urbanism and the Gilded Age West, St. Louis local historians and genealogists, architectural historians documenting buildings lost to a century and a half of redevelopment, scholars of bird's-eye view cartography, and collectors of antiquarian American city portraits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.5\" x 11\". Black and white. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872409821339,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 358597439924","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_adaf4d92-6cb2-4201-998c-73bebbbd1b47.jpg?v=1792531992"},{"product_id":"1878-pitzmans-atlas-of-st-louis-city-and-county-missouri","title":"1878 Pitzman's Atlas of St. Louis City and County, Missouri","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1878 Julius Pitzman — surveyor of the city and county of St. Louis — published his New Atlas of the City and County of Saint Louis, Missouri, constructed from actual surveys and official records, engraved by Worley \u0026amp; Bracher and issued by A. B. Holcombe \u0026amp; Co. of Philadelphia. This edition is an unabridged, full-color facsimile reproduced from the archival scans of the copy at the State Historical Society of Missouri — every map, plan, and directory page of the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas opens with a double-page outline map of the city and county, then maps the city of St. Louis ward by ward in four large double-page sections covering Wards 1 through 28, with enlarged plans of Rock Spring, East Rock Spring, Luxemburg, McRee City, Baden, Cheltenham, and Cote Brillante. The county follows in twenty-two township plats spanning Townships 42–48 North, Ranges 3–8 East, naming the landowners of the era parcel by parcel, with village plans of Kirkwood, Ferguson, Webster, Manchester, Ballwin, Fenton, Eureka, Allenton, Sappington, Meramec, Des Peres, Centreton, and St. Ferdinand — present-day Florissant. The complete Patrons' Business Directory closes the volume. Surveyed just two years after Compton \u0026amp; Dry's Pictorial St. Louis, Pitzman's atlas is the property-record companion to that famous bird's-eye view, and his surveys underpin most St. Louis land research to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of St. Louis history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e42 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872473948315,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 820073699060","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_ee997869-097f-4a40-a690-a27f49f57293.jpg?v=1792532518"},{"product_id":"1895-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-of-kansas-city-missouri-volume-1","title":"1895 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Kansas City, Missouri, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1895 the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. of New York surveyed Kansas City for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the city at fifty feet to the inch. Every building is shown to scale and colour-coded for construction, with its height, use, street number and hazards noted, together with the hydrants, water mains, steam boilers and fire walls that the underwriters needed to know.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume One opens on a report and index of every street and named building, then a key map of the whole city, and works block by block through the wholesale houses, packing plants and stock yards of the West Bottoms, the railroad yards and depots along the Kaw and the Missouri, the business blocks of Main, Delaware, Walnut and Grand, the hotels, theatres and churches, and the residential streets climbing the bluffs beyond. The surveyors' own report puts the population at 147,000, with seventeen fire stations, 142 paid men and 1,387 hydrants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition reproduces the volume complete and in full colour: the title page, the report and index, the key map and all ninety-three numbered sheets with their ten skeleton supplements. It is a working reference for historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Kansas City address back to the 1890s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e106 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted to order and shipped directly to you — please allow up to 7 business days before shipment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872491806875,"sku":"Publishing 2026 - Ingram DS \/ 820138794502","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_81f71e07-d62a-4df1-9f8d-76e067ee1f86.jpg?v=1792532700"},{"product_id":"1883-hopkins-atlas-of-the-city-of-st-louis-missouri","title":"1883 Hopkins Atlas of the City of St. Louis, Missouri","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1883 the Philadelphia map publisher and civil engineer G. M. Hopkins issued his Atlas of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, From Official Records, Private Plans and Actual Surveys — a monumental ward-by-ward property atlas of the entire city. This edition is an unabridged, full-color facsimile reproduced from the archival scans of the copy at the State Historical Society of Missouri: the double-page Plate of Index showing the city's wards, railroads, and stations, followed by all forty-four plates, complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery plate maps St. Louis at the property level: owners' names lettered on their parcels, building footprints drawn in place, block and lot numbers throughout — street by street from the Mississippi riverfront across every ward of the city. For St. Louis research this is the essential building-level record of the city before Sanborn fire insurance coverage begins in the 1890s, drawn seven years after Compton \u0026amp; Dry's Pictorial St. Louis and five years after Pitzman's atlas of the city and county — the third pillar of the Gilded Age St. Louis map shelf. Whoever owned the ground your house stands on in 1883, this atlas names them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of St. Louis history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e92 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872527491227,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 820171065195","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_3ec9d15e-f51d-45cd-98cf-cb50cda4749a.jpg?v=1792533101"}],"url":"https:\/\/tangletownpress.com\/collections\/state-missouri.oembed","provider":"Tangletown Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}