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New Orleans, Sketched From the Opposite Side of the River Upon a Mast of a Vessel During a Very Low Water
Topographical view of New Orleans from the Mississippi River shows skyline with sidewheel steamboats, ferries, and three-masted sailing ships in the foreground.
Log Cabin, 1840
Shewey, Arista C. Shewey's Pictorial St. Louis: Past and Present. St. Louis: Arista C. Shewey, 1892., St. Louis Mercantile Library
Old Market and Levee, 1840
Shewey, Arista C. Shewey's Pictorial St. Louis: Past and Present. St. Louis: Arista C. Shewey, 1892., St. Louis Mercantile Library
Public Meeting. A General Meeting of the Friends of Harrison and Reform.
An illustrated broadside announcing a "general meeting of the friends of Harrison & Reform" in Alton (Illinois) on May 9, 1840. Harrison, in farmer's clothes and broad-brimmed hat, stands next to a plough. Behind him is a barrel of hard cider, a log cabin, and another log building or shed. Overhead an eagle flies a streamer bearing the slogan "William Henry Harrison. The Farmer of North Bend".
Christ Church of St. Louis in 1840. Southwest Corner Fifth and Chestnut Series
St. Louis Mercantile Library, Collection M171 Box 1, Folder 1, Number 3
St. Louis Court House in 1840, Looking North from Market and Fourth Streets
St. Louis Mercantile Library, Collection M171 Box 1, Folder 1, Number 2
View of St. Louis in 1840. From South of Chouteau Lake
St. Louis Mercantile Library, Collection M171 Box 1, Folder 1, Number 4
Second Presbterian Church. Northwest Corner of 5th and Walnut, 1840
St. Louis Mercantile Library, Collection M171 Box 1, Folder 1, Number 5
St. Louis Cathedral. Walnut between Second and Third.
St. Louis Mercantile Library, Collection M171 Box 1, Folder 1, Number 6
Title Page to A Summer Journey
Steele, Eliza R. A Summer Journey in the West. New York: John S. Taylor, 1841., St. Louis Mercantile Library
A Summer Journey in the West
St. Louis Mercantile Library