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Description of the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
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Colton's map of Missouri from George Washington Colton's 1855 Atlas of the World.
1855 |
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Page from the Missouri Republican dated June 11, 1854 which contains the $400 reward ad placed by Henry Shaw for the return for escaped slave Sarah and her young son.
1854 |
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The Missouri Republican from May 25, 1855 iwhich contains the $300 reward ad placed by Henry Shaw for the return for escaped slave Jim. Ad states that Jim escaped from Shaw's country estate Tower Grove.
1855 |
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Plat map drawn for the Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees in 1923 for the new Shaw's Garden's Subdivision today known as the Southwest Garden neighborhood. See Image 0144 and Image 0145.
1923 |
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Textual detail from plat map drawn for the Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees for the Shaw's Garden's Subdivision in 1923. See Image 0143 and Image 0145.
1923 |
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Textual detail from plat map drawn for the Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees for the Shaw's Garden's Subdivision in 1923. See Image 0143 and Image 0144.
1923 |
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Newspaper account of the capture and arrest of Mary Meachum and enslaved persons during attempted crossing of the Mississippi River to freedom on May 21, 1855. Account from the Louisiana newspaper, Thibodaux Minervera. See IMAGE 0151.
1855 |
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Slave market of Bernard Lynch in downtown St. Louis, 1852. Photograph taken by Thomas M. Easterly.
1852 |
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Signed oath of loyalty by Henry Shaw from 1868, front side. Also see IMAGE 0149.
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