1906 fire insurance maps (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Facsimile of the 1906 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Revere and Winthrop, Massachusetts: the index, key map, all 69 numbered sheets and the 1917 additional sheet 72, in full color from the Library of Congress copy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1906 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Chicago for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the city at fifty feet to the inch. Every building is shown to scale and color-coded for construction, with its height, use, occupant and hazards noted, alongside the hydrants, water mains, sprinkler systems and boilers that protected it. This first volume of the South Division covers the heart of the city: the Loop from the Chicago River south to Van Buren Street, State Street and the department stores, the wholesale and printing blocks along the river, the railway terminals, and the lake front along Michigan Avenue. Two congested-district sheets and a key map open the volume, followed by ninety-four numbered sheets.This Exile Books edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of Volume One, South Division, of the 1906 Chicago survey, reproduced complete and in full color from the copy held by the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress: the title page, the index, the congested-district sheets, the key map and all ninety-four numbered sheets, one to a page.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1906 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Atlantic City for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the resort at fifty feet to the inch along the whole of Absecon Island, from the Inlet down through Ventnor and South Atlantic City to Longport. Every building is shown to scale and colour-coded for construction, with its height, use, street number and hazards noted, together with the hydrants, water mains, steam boilers and fire walls that the underwriters needed to know.The atlas opens on two index sheets of every street, hotel and named building, then a key map of the island, and works block by block along the Boardwalk and its great hotels and piers, the cottages, boarding houses and bath houses of the avenues named for the states, the railroad terminals, the ice plants, gas works and electric-light stations, and the wharves and yacht clubs on the bay side. Twenty-four skeleton sheets bound with the volume record the outlying blocks in outline.This Exile Books edition reproduces the volume complete and in full colour: the two index sheets, the key map and all seventy numbered sheets with their skeleton supplements. Printed at 8.5 x 11 inches on heavy colour stock, it is a working reference for historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing an Atlantic City address back to the Boardwalk's golden age.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Facsimile of the 1906 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Fresno, California: the index, key map, key map of specials and all 113 numbered sheets, in full color from the Library of Congress copy.

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