The electric age is here for the Ozarks

Item Information

• Description
  3-page prospectus from the Osage Development Company in St. Louis, Missouri (formerly of Springfield, Mo.). Page 1 outlines the specifications for the Bagnell project, the building of "The Great Bagnell Dam, Lake Osage, Osage Beach" by the owners, Union Electric Company of St. Louis. Page 2 consists of an illustrated advertisement of "Lake Osage [and] Bagnell Dam, world's largest artificial lake and Osage Beach, townsite and resort location". Page 3 shows "the plot of Osage Beach of Camden County Missouri", with certification of the surveying and plotting by civil engineer Fred W. Johnson, along with a notarized signature of Andrew Arnott, who "executed the foregoing instrument..."

• Item ID
  bdsmo21198
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  Missouri
  Saint Louis County (Mo.)
  Greene County (Mo.)
  Camden County (Mo.)
  Saint Louis (Mo.)
  Springfield (Mo.)
  Osage Beach (Mo.)
• Language
  eng
• Title
  The electric age is here for the Ozarks
• Extent
  3 scans
• Date
  1931
• Folder
  MO2
• Type
  Text
  broadsides
  advertisements
• Subject
  Commerce
  Advertising
  Tourism
  Travel
  Manners and customs

• Copyright & Usage
  None