Travel by River and Rail in Early St. Louis
by the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri St. Louis
Exhibition Dates: November 2019 through August 2020
Location: The Lambert Gallery East
The exhibition highlighted the design of riverboats and railroads in the 19th and early 20th centuries through historic scale models, drawings, diagrams, and artwork, such as the work of Otto Kühler, a railroad designer and artist who created dynamic prints of train engines. There were also historic prints of river and rail travel, such as night scenes on the Mississippi River or the first train arriving in a frontier town by Currier & Ives. There are also models of steam engine trains, Pullman cars, flatboats, tugboats and paddle wheelers in the exhibition.
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