Local Archivist's Expanded Blog

Here you'll find an expanded gallery of stl related history. Maps, plans, photographs, newspaper clippings etc. Anything that Instagram rejects I'll put here. Hopefully this tumblr will also act as a place where I can continue to passive aggressively promote my various websites. Who knows.

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The Riverfront Plan in the Post and the official Central Riverfront Plan of 1928. 

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A special type of postcard that I don’t see nearly enough are these kind that are retrospective. Both scenes above were long gone by the postmarks of 1906/1905, and capture scenes from the mid 19th century of a St. Louis pre-civil war

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Single most amazing thing I’ve ever come across in the newspaper archive

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Love these aerial shots of St. Louis

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I am always surprised by how many major headlines I’m the first to clip on newspapers (dot) com, for the St. Louis area papers. Obviously Brown v. Board is the major headline, but more interesting and relevant to my recent work for the museum is the headline in the middle--”Integration Also Being Planned for Harris and Stowe Colleges”--the two segregated teachers’ colleges in St. Louis. 

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Got a few new postcards this past week, this is one of my favorites. 

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View from the “dome” (most likely the old court house rotunda) looking N.E. to Fourth Street. St. Louis 

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April 1922, St. Louis Argus. 

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One of the best looking depot postcards I’ve ever seen. 

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The simple reason why St. Louis deserved to lose out on the chance to land an Amazon headquarters is: The plan design once again painted the Mississippi River blue.