Historical St. Louis Inwards 110 Drawings

In the 1870's a printer named Richard J. Compton employed an creative somebody called Camille N. Dry to depict a birds's middle stance map of St.Louis. Dry's map had to include every building, street together with landmark inward the city. The upshot was the magnificent 'Pictorial St. Louis', a huge oblique map consisting of 110 private drawings or plates.

You tin laissez passer on the axe testify Compton together with Dry's Pictorial St. Louis amongst this novel floor map. The map uses Leaflet.js to furnish a fully interactive version of this bird's middle stance of St. Louis.  The interactive version of the map allows you lot to zoom inward on the amazing details together with pan some this large portrait of the city.

If you lot scroll downward on the page you lot tin laissez passer on the axe every bit good larn nearly some of these details. The sidebar provides information nearly some of St. Louis' landmarks inward the Nineteenth Century, such every bit the world's longest arch bridge, the Social Evil Hospital together with the world's tallest free-standing Corinthian column.

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