The State Historical Society of Missouri’s collections contain cartographic materials including maps, atlases, and aerial photography. The collections include the Missouri Department of Natural Resources Maps, Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service Aerial Photographs, and numerous reference materials.
Articles from Missouri Historical Review and Missouri Times
- Bell, Ovid "The Old Town of Elizabeth."
Missouri Historical Review 8 (January 1914): 86-89. - Bingham, Rollins "An Old Missouri Town, Napton, Saline County."
Missouri Historical Review 8 (July 1914): 211-215. - Boutros, David "From the Stacks: Augustus Koch, City Viewmaker."
Missouri Historical Review 104 (July 2010): 233-236. - Britton, Rollin J. "Adam-Odni-Ahman."
Missouri Historical Review 20 (January 1926): 236-246. - Britton, Sam T. "Inefficiency of Water Transportation in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 14 (October 1919): 82-88. - Britton, Sam T., and W. O. Smith "Historical Geography of Salt River Community, Audrain County, Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 23 (October 1928): 91-98. - Broadhead, G. C. "Early Missouri Roads."
Missouri Historical Review 8 (January 1914): 90-97. - "The Santa Fe Trail."
Missouri Historical Review 4 (July 1910): 309-319. - Collier, L. T. "Livingston County, Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 5 (July 1911): 238-241. - Crisler, Robert M. "Republican Areas of Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 42 (July 1948): 299-309.
"Missouri’s ‘Little Dixie.'"
Missouri Historical Review 42 (January 1948): 131-139. - Diller, Aubrey "An Early Account of the Missouri River."
Missouri Historical Review 45 (January 1951): 150-157. - Easton, David W. "Echoes of Indian Emigration."
Part 1: Missouri Historical Review 8 (January 1914): 98-99.
Part 2: Missouri Historical Review 8 (April 1914): 142-153.
Part 3: Missouri Historical Review 8 (July 1914): 198-205. - Emons, Ben L. "The Most Historical Lot in Old St. Charles."
Missouri Historical Review 20 (July 1926): 495-498. - Folmer, Henri "Étienne Véniard De Bourgmond in the Missouri Country."
Missouri Historical Review 36 (April 1942): 279-298. - Goodwin, Cardinal L. "Early Exploration and Settlement of Missouri and Arkansas."
Missouri Historical Review 14 (April-July 1920): 385-424. - Gregg, Kate L. "The Missouri Reader: Explorers in the Valley."
Part 1: Missouri Historical Review 39 (April 1945): 354-388.
Part 2: Missouri Historical Review 39 (July 1945): 505-544. - Hagen, Olaf T. "The Pony Express Starts from St. Joseph."
Missouri Historical Review 43 (October 1948): 1-17. - Haskell Jr., Henry C., Richard B. Fowler "The Attempted Annexation of Kansas City to the State of Kansas."
Missouri Historical Review 44 (April 1950): 221-224. - Howe, E. W. "A Bit of Weston, Missouri, History."
Part 1: Missouri Historical Review 47 (October 1952): 29-36.
Part 2: Missouri Historical Review 47 (January 1953): 141-147. - James, Eugenia Learned, and Vivian K. McLarty "Three Generations in the Span of a Continent: The Zumwalt Family."
Part 1: Missouri Historical Review 48 (April 1954): 249-263.
Part 2: Missouri Historical Review 48 (July 1954): 341-351. - Klein, Ada Paris "The Missouri Reader: The Lewis and Clark Expedition."
Part 1: Missouri Historical Review 42 (April 1948): 249-270.
Part 2: Missouri Historical Review 42 (July 1948): 343-366.
Part 3: Missouri Historical Review 43 (October 1948): 48-70.
Part 4: Missouri Historical Review 43 (January 1949): 145-159.
"The Missouri Reader: Ownership of the Land under France, Spain, and United States."
Missouri Historical Review 44 (April 1950): 274-294.
"The Missouri Reader: The Fur Trade."
Part 1: Missouri Historical Review 43 (July 1949): 360-380.
Part 2: Missouri Historical Review 44 (October 1949): 48-65.
Part 3: Missouri Historical Review 44 (January 1950): 168-178. - Klein, Frederick S. "Letters of a Young Surveyor, 1828-1829."
Missouri Historical Review 23 (October 1928): 61-84. - Lloyd, James T. "Some Historic Facts about Canton."
Missouri Historical Review 21 (October 1926): 3-8. - Mahan, George A. "Salt River."
Missouri Historical Review 22 (January 1928): 171-175. - McKee, Howard I. "The Platte Purchase."
Missouri Historical Review 32 (January 1938): 129-147. - Nasatir, A. P. "An Account of Spanish Louisiana, 1785."
Missouri Historical Review 24 (July 1930): 521-536.
"The Formation of the Missouri Company."
Missouri Historical Review 25 (October 1930): 10-22.
"John Evans, Explorer and Surveyor."
Part 1: Missouri Historical Review 25 (January 1931): 219-239.
Part 2: Missouri Historical Review 25 (April 1931): 432-460.
Part 3: Missouri Historical Review 25 (July 1931): 585-608. - Nutter, Charles "Robert R. Livingston, the Forgotten Architect of the Louisiana Purchase."
Missouri Historical Review 48 (January 1954): 117-133. - Ohman, Marian M. "Missouri County Organization, 1812-1876."
Missouri Historical Review 76 (April 1982): 253-281. - Rader, Perry S. "The Location of the Permanent Seat of Government."
Missouri Historical Review 21 (October 1926): 9-18. - Rickey, Don, Jr. "The Old St. Louis Riverfront, 1763-1960."
Missouri Historical Review 58 (January 1964): 174-190. - Ryle, Walter H. "A Study of Early Days in Randolph County, 1818-1860."
Missouri Historical Review 24 (January 1930): 214-237. - Sampson, F. A. "The New Madrid and Other Earthquakes of Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 7 (July 1913): 179-199.
"Books of Early Travel in Missouri: Long-James."
Missouri Historical Review 9 (January 1915): 94-101.
"Books of Early Travels in Missouri: Bradbury."
Missouri Historical Review 9 (April 1915): 177-182. - Sheldon, Addison E. "The Missouri River Region as Seen by the First White Explorers."
Missouri Historical Review 22 (January 1928): 176-186. - Shepard, Edward M. "Early Springfield."
Missouri Historical Review 24 (October 1929): 50-65. - Shoemaker, Floyd C. "A City that is Set on a Hill Cannot Be Hid."
Missouri Historical Review 37 (January 1943): 123-133.
"The Pony Express: Commemoration, Stables, and Museum."
Missouri Historical Review 44 (July 1950): 343-363.
"The Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and the Transfer of Upper Louisiana to the United States, 1804."
Missouri Historical Review 48 (October 1953): 1-22. - Sosey, Frank H. "Palmyra and Its Historical Environment."
Missouri Historical Review 23 (April 1929): 361-379. - Spencer, Thomas M. "Demand Nothing but What Is Strictly Right and Submit to Nothing that Is Wrong: Governor Lilburn Boggs, Governor Robert Lucas, and the Honey War of 1839."
Missouri Historical Review 103 (October 2008): 22-40. - Stevens, Walter B. "The Travail of Missouri for Statehood."
Missouri Historical Review 15 (October 1920): 1-35. - Stipes, M. F. "Fort Orleans, the First French Post on the Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 8 (April 1914): 121-135. - Thomas, Judge John L. "Some Historical Lines of Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 3 (October 1908): 5-33. - Thomas, Raymond D. "Missouri Valley Settlement: St. Louis to Independence."
Missouri Historical Review 21 (October 1926): 19-40. - Trexler, Harrison A. "Missouri - Montana Highways."
Part 1: Missouri Historical Review 12 (January 1918): 67-80.
Part 2: Missouri Historical Review 12 (April 1918): 145-162.
"Missouri in the Old Geographies."
Missouri Historical Review 32 (January 1938): 148-155. - Viles, Jonas "Missouri Capitals and Capitols."
Part 1: Missouri Historical Review 13 (January 1919): 135-156.
Part 2: Missouri Historical Review 13 (April 1919): 232-350.
"Missouri in 1820."
Missouri Historical Review 15 (October 1920): 36-52. - Viles, Jonas, and Jesse E. Wrench "A Guide to the Study of Local History and the Collection of Historical Material."
Missouri Historical Review 15 (April 1921): 453-467. - Withers, Robert Steele "The Stake and Rider Fence."
Missouri Historical Review 44 (April 1950): 225-231. - Wood, W. Raymond "William Clark’s Mapping in Missouri, 1803-1804."
Missouri Historical Review 76 (April 1982): 241-252.
"The Journals of Capt. Thomas Beck Nell."
Missouri Historical Review 4 (January 1910): 65-84.
"Cities that Were Promised."
Missouri Historical Review 6 (October 1911): 11-13.
"Santa Fe Trail, M. M. Marmaduke Journal."
Missouri Historical Review 6 (October 1911): 1-10.
"Missouri, Crossroads of a Nation."
Missouri Historical Review 38 (October 1943): 1-11.
Catalog
Many of the State Historical Society of Missouri’s holdings are included in the SHSMO online catalog. Numerous titles can be found by typing the keywords “Missouri geography” into the search bar.
Manuscripts
The State Historical Society of Missouri has many manuscript collections containing primary materials on specific communities or areas.
Maps
Map Collection
The State Historical Society of Missouri is home to thousands of unique Missouri maps chronicling our state and territorial history, western exploration, and the complexities of westward expansion.
In addition to the individual maps, many of our manuscript collections also contain rare, unpublished, annotated, and sometimes even hand-drawn maps and diagrams that are of considerable interest.
Plat Maps
County plat books or atlases contain descriptions of land owners and landmarks. Utilizing the Public Land Survey System, each map is divided into township, range, and sections. Owners of these divisions of land are identified on the maps, which sometimes also include landmarks such as churches, cemeteries, and schools. Many plat books contain a brief county history and a directory of county residents.
The online collection contains plat maps of Missouri counties published between 1875 and 1917. Additional plat maps are available at the State Historical Society of Missouri’s research centers.
Photographs
The Aerial Photograph Collection is a special collection of images taken from the late 1930s to the 1960s. The digital collection contains a select number of counties. Additional counties and images are available through the research centers.