St. Louis, Missouri. - Dr. J. H. McLean's Block and Palace Tower, on fourth Street, Between Market and Chestnut Streets. or Estados Unidos: - Uma Rua Commercial Em S. Louis, Missouri.

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• MEDIUM: Wood engraving,

  DATE: 1875.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 14 x 9 1/4" (35.7 x 23.5 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: A 19th-century perspective of St. Louis, Missouri. - Dr. J. H. McLean's Block and Palace Tower, on fourth Street, Between Market and Chestnut Streets. or Estados Unidos: - Uma Rua Commercial Em S. Louis, Missouri., captured as a wood engraving and hand colored to highlight the details. James Henry McLean arrived in St. Louis in 1849 and by 1855 had a line of his own medicines: Dr. J.H. McLean's Celebrated Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier, Dr. J.H. McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm, Dr. J.H. McLean's Celebrated Catarrh Snuff and Dr. J.H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment, among others. He degree was a class or two and working, as a young man, for pharmacist in Philadelphia. It appears he had a good understanding of what people of the day needed, as well as, good business sense. Text is in spanish - "Estados Unidos: -Uma Rua Commercial Em S. Louis, Missouri." Appears to be from a 'newspaper' called 'Novo Mundo'. Published Junho, 24, 1876.

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• CONDITION: Good condition with modern hand color.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Town Views - United States , Missouri