1884 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Detroit, Michigan, Volume 1

The Complete Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlas of Detroit, Michigan, Volume One, in Thirty-Seven Double-Page Sheets

80 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In 1884 the Sanborn Map & Publishing Co. of New York surveyed Detroit for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the city at fifty feet to the inch across large double-page sheets. 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.Volume One opens on a key map of the whole city, then works block by block through the downtown along Woodward, Jefferson, Griswold and Shelby, the warehouses, docks and shipyards of the Detroit River front, the Campus Martius and the City Hall, the churches and public buildings, and the car works, foundries, lumber yards and railroad grounds beyond. Thirty-seven numbered sheets, each a two-page spread in this edition, record the city as it stood in the year Detroit was becoming the industrial capital of the Great Lakes.This Exile Books edition reproduces the volume complete and in full colour: the key map and all thirty-seven double-page sheets. Printed at 8.5 x 11 inches on heavy colour stock, it is a working reference for historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Detroit address back to the 1880s.

• ISBN: 9798906511270
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Exile Books LLC