City planning -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
C.E. Smith & Co. Collection
Collection
Identifier: A1523
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1908-1955
John H. Gundlach Collection
Collection
Identifier: A0630
Scope and Contents
The John H. Gundlach Papers consist primarily of correspondence, clippings, notes, memoranda, and printed material that document Gundlach’s activities in city planning and civic affairs, as well as his interest in the theater and collecting manuscripts.
The Civic Affairs Series comprises correspondence, memoranda, notes, and clippings arranged by the various St. Louis city improvement projects that Gundlach was instrumental in...
Dates:
1848-1927
George E. Kessler Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0816
Scope and Contents
The George E. Kessler Papers include business and personal correspondence, pamphlets, reports, minutes of proceedings, invitations, postcards, brochures, photographs, blueprints, sketches, and maps.
Dates:
1886-1923
Lewis Place Oral History Project Transcripts
Collection
Identifier: A3174
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of ten oral history interview transcripts for interviews with nine individuals conducted by historian Gwen Moore of the Missouri Historical Society for the Lewis Place Oral History Project. The video interviews were conducted between September 2008 and January 2009. The transcripts are arranged alphabetically by name of interviewee.
Moore began each interview with questions about the interviewees’ backgrounds (family...
Dates:
2008-2009
St. Louis City Planning Agencies Collection
Collection
Identifier: P0197
Scope and Contents
The St. Louis City Planning Agencies Collection contains photographs, negatives, printed material, original drawings and other items documenting 20th century city planning efforts and the resulting transformation of St. Louis. Strategic visions for tackling the challenges of a modern city were presented in both the 1907 and 1947 comprehensive plans, and many of the urban changes documented in the collection can be traced back to proposals in these plans. Issues documented in the collection...
Dates:
ca. 1892-1985; Majority of material found within 1915-1970