A report on St. Louis

The home of Auguste Chouteau in St. Louis. Chouteau and Pierre Laclède founded St. Louis in 1764.

In 1780 during the American Revolutionary War, St. Louis was attacked by British forces, mostly Native American allies, in the Battle of St. Louis.

White men pose, 104 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1852 at Lynch's slave market.

South Broadway after a May 27, 1896, tornado

The Government Building at the 1904 World's Fair

View of the Arch (completed 1965) from Laclede's Landing, the remaining section of St. Louis's commercial riverfront

Wainwright Building (1891), an important early skyscraper designed by Louis Sullivan

A cluster of skyscrapers is located just west of the Gateway Arch and the Mississippi River.

Many houses in Lafayette Square are built with a blending of Greek Revival, Federal and Italianate styles.

The Delmar Loop is a neighborhood close to Washington University, on the border of the city and St. Louis County.

The Captains' Return statue inundated by the Mississippi River, 2010.

Map of racial distribution in St. Louis, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

Pruitt–Igoe was a large housing project constructed in 1954, which became infamous for poverty, crime and segregation. It was demolished in 1972.

The Anheuser-Busch packaging plant in St. Louis

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, which is affiliated with the Washington University School of Medicine

The Enterprise Center in downtown St. Louis

The Sinquefield Cup chess tournament is hosted annually in St. Louis

Forest Park features a variety of attractions, including the St. Louis Zoo, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Missouri History Museum, and the St. Louis Science Center.

The Jewel Box, a greenhouse and event venue in Forest Park

Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis University High School was founded in 1818. Their current building pictured here was built in 1924.

The former St. Louis Post-Dispatch building in downtown St. Louis

Interstate 64 crossing the Mississippi in Downtown St. Louis

St. Louis MetroLink Red Line train leaving St. Louis Union Station

University City-Big Bend Subway Station along the Blue Line, near Washington University.

Control tower and main terminal at St. Louis Lambert

An eastbound Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis freight train passing under the Hampton Avenue viaduct.

Second-largest city in Missouri.

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St. Louis Lambert International Airport

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Aerial view of Naval Air Station St. Louis in the mid-1940s

F-15s flying over the Air National Guard base

Terminal 1 windows boarded up after the 2011 tornado

Terminal 1 departures hall in 2017 after renovation

St. Louis Lambert International Airport, is the primary commercial airport serving metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

1904 Summer Olympics

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An Ainu man competing in an archery contest during "Anthropology Days"

A tug of war competition at the 1904 Summer Olympics

Francis Olympic Field, Washington University in St. Louis, 1904

The silver medal of the 1904 Olympics for the 800 meter run

The 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from 29 August to 3 September 1904, as part of an extended sports program lasting from 1 July to 23 November 1904, located at what is now known as Francis Field on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis.

Saint Louis Art Museum

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One of the principal U.S. art museums, with paintings, sculptures, cultural objects, and ancient masterpieces from all corners of the world.

Interior of the museum as sketched in 1913 by Marguerite Martyn

East Building, the new wing designed by British architect Sir David Chipperfield

1879 Peabody and Stearns building (razed 1919)

The statue Apotheosis of St. Louis by Charles Henry Niehaus, created in 1903

Hans Holbein the Younger, Mary, Lady Guildford, 1527

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Judgment of Paris, 1530

Ambrosius Benson, Portrait of Anne Stafford, 1535

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), St. Paul, 1598–1600

Bartolomeo Manfredi, Apollo and Marsyas, 1616–20

Nicolas Tournier, Banquet Scene with a Lute Player, 1625

Frans Hals, Portrait of a Woman, 1650–52

Corrado Giaquinto, The Virgin presents Saint Helena and Constantine to the Trinity, 1741–42

John Singleton Copley,Thaddeus Burr, 1758–60

Formerly attributed to Jean-Étienne Liotard, Portrait of a young woman, 18th century

Caspar David Friedrich, Sunburst in the Riesengebirge, 1835

Jean-François Millet, Madame Valmont, 1841

George Caleb Bingham, The Wood-Boat, 1850

George Caleb Bingham, The Verdict of the People, 1854–55

Albert Bierstadt, Surveyor’s Wagon in the Rockies, 1859

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Léonard Renoir, The Artist’s Father, 1869

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, The Beach, Étretat, 1872

Georges Seurat, Port-en-Bessin, The Outer Harbor (Low Tide), 1888

Vincent van Gogh, Still Life, Basket of Apples, 1897

Vincent van Gogh, Stairway at Auvers, 1890

John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Charlotte Cram, 1900

Camille Pissarro, The Louvre, Morning, Sunlight, 1901

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Portrait of Gerti, 1911

Robert Henri, Betalo Rubino, Dramatic Dancer, 1916

Amedeo Modigliani, Elvira Resting at a Table, 1919

Claude Monet, Charing Cross Bridge, before 1926

Horace Pippin, Sunday Morning Breakfast, 1943

Claude Monet, Rocks at Belle-Isle, Port-Domois, 1886

Its three-story building stands in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, where it is visited by up to a half million people every year.

Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

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Felix Vallé State Historic Site, c. 1818

John Price "Old Brick" Building, c. 1804

Memorial Cemetery, established 1787 and Missouri's oldest

The Spanish moved the capital of Upper Louisiana from Fort de Chartres fifty miles upriver to St. Louis.

Union Station (St. Louis)

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Union Station was the largest and busiest train station in the world in 1894.

Fanciful drawing by artist Marguerite Martyn of a newlywed couple at Union Station, with porter following and an older couple throwing rice, published August 5, 1906, in the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Grand Hall, from a postcard mailed in 1909.

The station now serves as a hotel and shopping complex.

A Red Line MetroLink train leaves Union Station.

St. Louis Union Station is a National Historic Landmark train station in St. Louis, Missouri.

Jim Roberts was the first selected skater by the Blues in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft. He played with the Blues from 1967 to 1972.

St. Louis Blues

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Drafted by the Blues in 1976, Bernie Federko played with the team from 1976 to 1989. He holds the record for games played with the Blues.

"Saskatchewan's Got The Blues!" hockey puck circa 1983

The Blues acquired Brett Hull through a trade in March 1988. Playing with the team until 1998, he holds the record for goals scored with the team.

Keith Tkachuk with the Blues. During his time with the team he became the third American player to score 500 goals, and the sixth American player to reach 1,000 points.

David Backes was named the 20th team captain of the Blues, and remained as captain until 2016.

The Blues hosted the Chicago Blackhawks at Busch Stadium for the 2017 NHL Winter Classic.

Patrick Maroon with the Stanley Cup at the Blues' victory parade following the 2019 Stanley Cup Finals.

Before the 2014–15 season, the team released new home and away jerseys that were similar to those worn in the early 2000s. T. J. Oshie (left) models the blue home jersey, while Alex Pietrangelo models the white road jersey.

Introduced in October 2007, Louie the Bear is the mascot for the St. Louis Blues.

The Blues retired Bob Plager's number on February 2, 2017. He played as a defenseman with the team from 1967 to 1978.

Brett Hull is the franchise's all-time goals leader, and is second only to Bernie Federko in both points and assists.

Brian Elliott set the Blues' franchise records for shutouts, best save percentage, and lowest goals-against average in the 2011–12 season.

The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis.

Peabody Energy

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Peabody's North Antelope Rochelle Coal Mine, Wyoming in 2005, from ISS. A portion of Arch Coal's Black Thunder Mine Complex is visible to north (left).

The Bucyrus Erie 3850-B power shovel named "Big Hog" went to work next door to Paradise Fossil Plant for Peabody Coal Company's Sinclair surface mine in 1962. When it started work it was received with grand fanfare and was the largest shovel in the world with a bucket size of 115 yd3. After it finished work in the mid-1980s, it was buried in a pit on the mine's property.

Peabody Energy is a coal mining and energy company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Ralston Purina

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Ralston Purina Company was a St. Louis, Missouri,–based American conglomerate with substantial holdings in animal feed, food, pet food, consumer products, and entertainment.

"Terrible Tragedy at St. Louis, Mo.", wood engraving originally published in the New York Illustrated News, 1861

Camp Jackson affair

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Monument to Nathaniel Lyon with the arsenal in the background

The Camp Jackson affair, also known as the Camp Jackson massacre, occurred during the American Civil War on May 10, 1861, when a volunteer Union Army regiment captured a unit of secessionists at Camp Jackson, outside the city of St. Louis, in the divided slave state of Missouri.

Cahokia

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A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures. Cahokia is located near the center of this map in the upper part of the Middle Mississippi area.

Artist's recreation of central Cahokia. Cahokia's east-west baseline transects the Woodhenge, Monk's Mound, and several other large mounds.

Mississippian period showing the multiple layers of mound construction, mound structures such as temples or mortuaries, ramps with log stairs, and prior structures under later layers, multiple terraces, and intrusive burials

An 1882 illustration of Monks Mound showing it with fanciful proportions

Incised sandstone tablet of a Birdman found in 1971 during excavations into the east side of Monks Mound

Mississippian culture repoussé copper plates

View of the reconstructed Woodhenge III and its alignment with the equinox pole and Monks Mound 0.5 mi away

A Mississippian-era priest, in the 13th century, Cahokia metropolis, holding a ceremonial flint mace and severed sacrificial head

Tamarois et Caouquias on a French map of Illinois in 1718, south of the confluence of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers (approximate modern state area highlighted) from {{lang|fr|Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi}} by Guillaume de L'Isle

The Rattlesnake Causeway leading from Monks Mound to Mound 66 is the city's ceremonial north-south axis.

The "Chunkey Player" statuette, made of Missouri flint clay, depicts the ancient Native American game of chunkey. The statuette is believed to have been originally crafted at or near Cahokia Mounds; it was excavated at a Mississippian site in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, revealing the reach of the trade network of this culture.

Clay statuette excavated at Cahokia site

The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (11 MS 2) is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. undefined 1050–1350 CE ) directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri.