{"id":1807143,"date":"2022-05-01T19:11:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T23:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1807143"},"modified":"2022-05-01T19:11:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T23:11:20","slug":"pictorial-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/05\/pictorial-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictorial St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Pictorial<\/a>
Richard J. Compton and Camille N. Dry, Pictorial St. Louis<\/em> (1876), plate 2. Library of Congress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the Library of Congress\u2019s map blog, World\u2019s Revealed<\/em>, Julie Stoner takes a look at a rather unusual example of a bird\u2019s-eye (or panoramic) city map<\/a>. \u201cThe Geography and Map Division has over 1,700 of these beautiful panoramic maps in the collection<\/a>, but one item stands out above all the others as one of the crowning achievements of the art, Camille N. Dry\u2019s 1875 atlas, Pictorial St. Louis; The Great Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley<\/em><\/a>. A visually stunning atlas, instead of only one sheet, it was produced on 110 plates, which if trimmed and assembled creates a panorama of the city measuring about 9 by 24 feet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the Library of Congress\u2019s map blog, World\u2019s Revealed, Julie Stoner takes a look at a rather unusual example of a bird\u2019s-eye (or panoramic) city map. \u201cThe Geography and Map Division has over 1,700 of… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[891,54,66,59,531],"class_list":["post-1807143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-birdseye","tag-cities","tag-library-of-congress","tag-loc","tag-st-louis","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785091,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/the-pictorial-maps-of-jean-louis-rheault\/","url_meta":{"origin":1807143,"position":0},"title":"The Pictorial Maps of Jean-Louis Rheault","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 March 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"KelownaNow reports that a pictorial tourist map of Kelowna, British Columbia will be updated by the original artist later this year. 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