A bird's-eye view over the rooftops of downtown St. Louis, with a large arcaded office block in the foreground and taller commercial buildings rising behind it; the card labels the scene simply "Business District." and "St. Louis." The windows of the buildings have been hand-tinted in bright yellow, red and blue, a common novelty treatment on early twentieth-century view cards. St. Louis was by 1906 one of the largest commercial centers of the Mississippi Valley, its wholesale and office district clustered near the riverfront.
Black-and-white photograph with hand-colored windows; small punched hole near top center; publisher imprint (Samuel Cupples Envelope Co., St. Louis and New York) printed vertically in the left margin; handwritten message on the right side of the front, from Rycha, Thanksgiving 1906.
Postmark: AMESBURY MASS DEC 9 1906 10-30A PM. Undivided back; white border; color lithograph; light toning/spotting.
Cite this card
Business district, St. Louis, Missouri, 1906, postcard, c. 1906. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/business-district-st-louis-missouri-1906. Accessed November 2, 2026.
