St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View Beyond the Garden WallEric Sandweiss Assembled in honor of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of philanthropist and entrepreneur Henry Shaw (1800-1889), St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw is a collection of nine provocative essays that together provide a definitive account of the life of St. Louis during the 1800s, a thriving period during which the city acquired the status of the largest metropolis in the American West.Shaw, who established the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1859, was just one of the many immigrants who left their mark on this complex, culturally rich city during the century of its greatest growth. This volume examines the lives of a number of these men and women, from celebrated leaders such as Senator Thomas Hart Benton and the Reverend William Greenleaf Eliot to the thousands of Germans, African Americans, and others whose labor built the city we recognize today. Leading scholars reconstruct and interpret the world that Shaw knew in his long lifetime: a world of contention and of creativity, of trendsetting developments in politics, business, scientific research, and the arts.Shaw's own story mirrored these developments. Born in Sheffield, England, he immigrated to the United States in 1819 and soon moved to St. Louis. Ultimately becoming a very successful businessman and philanthropist, he was a participant in and a witness to the vast economic and cultural transformation of the city. |
Contents
Missouri Botanical Garden 1874 | 6 |
Susan Blow n d | 12 |
Henry Shaws mausoleum c 1890 | 15 |
Politics Race Ethnicity | 17 |
Thomas Hart Benton c 1856 | 23 |
William Greenleaf Eliot c 1850 | 29 |
Frank P Blair Jr 1862 | 38 |
African Americans in Henry Shaws St Louis | 51 |
The Growth of Research | 136 |
Charles P Chouteau n d | 154 |
Shaws Museum 18681874 | 160 |
William Torrey Harris n d | 171 |
Shepard Kindergarten c 1885 | 178 |
Manual Training Room Hodgen School 1899 | 185 |
Theater and Literature | 189 |
Playbill for Dan Marble in Jonathan in England and The Forest Rose 1849 | 198 |
Inventory of Jeanette Forchet May 30 1790 | 61 |
The Cascades sheet music cover 1904 | 76 |
Immigration | 79 |
Witters GermanEnglish Primer and New First German Reader | 96 |
Business Science Learning | 101 |
BirdsEye View of St Louis Mo 1858 | 105 |
Bank of the State of Missouri 20 banknote 1838 | 118 |
Jim Crow as Sung by Mr T D Rice sheet music n d | 210 |
The Literary Life | 218 |
William Wells Brown 1880 | 226 |
Planters House Hotel c 1870 | 233 |
Contributors | 239 |
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