Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0372Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of sloped ground paved with bricks, sevearl carts are seen being pulled by horses stacks of bricks and other material are visable, a bridge is seen in the distance. Above the image "34" is printed, below the image "V23241 - On the Bustling Levee, St. Louis, Where the Products of the Mississippi Valley are Distributed." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydeny, Aus." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V23241
ON THE BUSTLING LEVEE, ST. LOUIS
Lat. 38 (Degrees) N.; Long. 90 (Degrees) W.
St. Louis is the great commerical center of the Mississippi valley. It is twenty miles below the mouth of the Missourit and two hundred miles above that of the Ohio. Thus it is the distrubuting point for almost the entire central region of this country. It receives vast quantities of grain from Kansas and Nebraska and St. louis is fast becoming a rival of Minneapolis in the manufacture of flour.
It is the center of a great stock growing district and vast quantities of beef and port are packed and shipped to all parts of the world. As water is always the cheapest medium for transportation, the levee (pronunciation) is the place from which much of this started, though there are at least twenty different railroads.
The meat packing industry leads to a large trade in leeath, which has placed St. Louis among the greatest places for manufacturing boots and shoes. it is near enough to the great tobacco growers that this crop is included in its manufactures. its convenience to the cotton belt and the sheep growing regions of the west combine the facilities for manufacturing clothing. Large lumbering interests have given it a high place in manufacturing street cars. It has easy access to the lead, coal, zinc, and iron of Missouri. It has a water frontage of almost twnety miles. its exports go chiefly to Mexico, South America, and the West Indies. As a distributing center in our own coutnry, linking north, south, east, and west, ti is without a rival.
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