Aerial photograph of St. Louis, circa 1940s. Shows an area bounded approximately by downtown St. Louis heading westward on Chouteau Ave. and Manchester to Hampton Ave. then south to a little past the River des Peres then east across the Mississippi River showing a portion of Illinois south of downtown.

File — Box: 11

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection includes plats of several subdivisions in the city of St. Louis and St. Louis County; maps of St. Louis and the Illinois cities of East St. Louis, Galesburg, and Monmouth; a few aerial photographs of parts of the St. Louis area; maps and drawings regarding Sewer District No. 5 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri; charts of the Mississippi River; survey plat for the De Soto–Carr Housing Project, later known as the Pruitt-Igoe housing project; and plats of the River des Peres Drainage Works. Several of these documents were prepared by C.E. Smith & Co., consulting engineers, of St. Louis.