Picturesque Saint Louis
Subtitle: its magnificent outing points. (...)
By: by James Allan Reid
Contributors: Finkenbiner-Reid Publishing Company
Publisher: The Finkenbiner-Reid Publishing Company
Published: 1909
Place of publication: Saint Louis, Missouri
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Streetscapes (Urban design); Pictorial works; Industrial buildings; Historic buildings
Other titles: Picturesque Saint Louis: :
Notes: Photomechanical reproductions of photographs of Saint Louis (Mo.), with accompanying text and advertisements.

Includes images of street views, water tower, portraits of notable citizens, court house, post office, historic sites, city hall, office buildings, skyscrapers, Washington University, factories, art museum, St. Louis University, churches, libraries, Y. M. C. A., schools, hotels, greenhouse, gardens, store interiors, residences, Mississippi River, bridge, ferry boat, parade grounds, monuments, water works, cemetery, barracks, Anheuser-Busch Plant, birds'-eye view, parks, stock yards, livestock, coal mine, prison, steamboats, and railroad map.

Full transcription of t.p. reads: "There's no place like home. Picturesque Saint Louis: its magnificent outing points. The down-town business section; the sky-scrapers and some noted public buildings; the great department stores: the big newspapers: Forest Park and the other beautiful parks and gardens of the city: the art museum and the libraries: historic places and statues: the grand churches open to visitors and residents: homes of the famous clubs: the amusements: conveyances. Some distinguished neighbors: University City, Wellston, Clayton, Webster, Kirkwood, St. Charles, Alton, Edwardsville, Collinsville, O'Fallon, Lebanon, Belleville, East St. Louis, National City and the Stock Yards, the Tri-Cities, Hannibal, Quincy, Keokuk, Peoria, Springfield, Illinois, Evansville, Louisville, Cairo, Paducha, Memphis. The Mississippi River Excursions. The outing trips over the city trolleys...the great East Side suburban lines...the McKinley system to Springfield. An illustrated suggestor and souvenir."

Includes [16] unnumbered pages of advertisements at end.

Includes sheet of paper, 8 x 19 cm., tipped in at t.p. reading: "Compliments of Sheridan Stove Company, Quincy, Illinois. See inside back cover."

Front cover and back cover each fold out to 35 cm wide.