{"title":"Alabama","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacsimile reprints of Sanborn fire insurance atlases, county and state atlases, and other historical works for Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1902-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-of-birmingham-alabama","title":"1902 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Birmingham, Alabama","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1902 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Birmingham for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the young iron city at fifty feet to the inch. Every building is shown to scale and colour-coded for construction, height and use, with street names, house numbers, hydrants, water mains and steam boilers noted. The atlas opens on a key map of the whole city with its water and fire-department report, then works block by block through the business district along Morris Avenue, First Avenue and Twentieth Street, the furnaces, foundries, rolling mills and railroad yards of the reservation, the Southside and the Highlands, and the suburbs of Avondale, Woodlawn, East Lake and Ensley with its great steel works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of Insurance Maps of Birmingham, Alabama (Sanborn Map Company, New York, 1902), reproduced complete and in full colour: the title page, the street and specials index, the key map, all one hundred and eight numbered sheets and the four skeleton sheets bound with them. It is a working atlas of Birmingham at the height of its first industrial boom for genealogists, house historians, architectural historians, preservationists and anyone tracing the growth of the Magic City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e116 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted to order and shipped directly to you — please allow up to 7 business days before shipment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872492265627,"sku":"Publishing 2026 - Ingram DS \/ 820138794506","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_5d4dbb59-0d0b-402c-a4e8-01eb5a08873a.jpg?v=1792532703"},{"product_id":"1904-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-of-mobile-alabama","title":"1904 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Mobile, Alabama","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe complete 1904 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Mobile, Alabama, reprinted in full color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1904 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Mobile for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the Gulf port on the Mobile River at fifty feet to the inch. Every building is shown to scale and color-coded for construction (yellow for frame, pink for brick, blue for stone), with heights, uses, windows, party walls, hydrants, water mains and fire stations all marked. The index sheet lists every street and every named business, church, school, hotel, mill and compress with the sheet it appears on, and the key map places the colored sheet grid over the whole city, with notes on the water works and the fire department.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ninety-two numbered sheets work block by block from the stores, banks, hotels and cotton offices along Dauphin, Royal, Conti and Water Streets and Bienville Square, through the wharves, warehouses, cotton compresses and elevators of the river front, the passenger and freight depots and yards of the Louisville \u0026amp; Nashville and the Mobile \u0026amp; Ohio, the saw mills and lumber yards along the river and Three Mile Creek, to the residential streets out along Government Street, Spring Hill Avenue and the streets of the old town. Eight skeleton sheets record the block outlines of the densest blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: the title page, the index sheet, the key map, all ninety-two numbered map sheets and the eight skeleton sheets. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Mobile address back to 1904.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e104 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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It covers Bessemer and its neighbours Brighton and Lipscomb, a combined population of 31,000: the business blocks of Second, Third and Fourth Avenues around the Court House, the railroad depots and the cast-iron pipe foundries, the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company tenements beside its steel furnaces, the Jonesboro district, and the separate towns of Brighton and Lipscomb to the north-east.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thirty-seven map sheets after the key map work block by block from the stores, banks, garages and halls along Second, Third and Fourth Avenues and Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets - the Jefferson County Court House and Jail, the City Hall and fire headquarters, the Masonic Temple, the Carnegie Library, the Post Office, the Realty and Telephone Exchange buildings, and the Grand and Terminal hotels - through the Louisville \u0026amp; Nashville passenger station and freight house, the Birmingham Mineral, Alabama Great Southern, St. Louis \u0026amp; San Francisco and Atlanta, Birmingham \u0026amp; Atlantic depots, the Long-Lewis Hardware Company, Armour \u0026amp; Company's meat warehouse, the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company, the Central Foundry Company's pipe and stove works, the Cox Foundry, the Alabama Pipe Company's Superior plant, the Imperial Pipe Company, the Bessemer Soil Pipe Company, the Bessemer Foundry and Machine Shop Company, the Nashville Bridge Company's steel-bridge works, the Bessemer Galvanizing Works, F. 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Royster Guano Company's Bessemer Fertilizer Works, the Bessemer Gas and Bessemer Ice and Coal companies, the Crotwell Bros., Bessemer and Central lumber mills, the Standard Oil and Texas Oil tanks, and the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company's tenements, commissary hospital and community house, to the Elizabeth Duncan Hospital, the High School and its annexes, the Clarendon, Vance, Roberts, Jonesboro, Brighton and Lipscomb schools, St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church and School, Trinity Episcopal, First Baptist, First Methodist, Presbyterian and Christian churches, the synagogue on West Seventeenth Street, the colored churches and schools, the Brighton country club, and the residential streets of Bessemer, Jonesboro, Brighton and Lipscomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1924 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Bessemer, Brighton and Lipscomb for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the business district and the foundries beside it at fifty feet to the inch and the residential districts, the pipe works, Jonesboro, Brighton and Lipscomb at one hundred feet to the inch. Every building is shown to scale and color-coded for construction (yellow for frame, pink for brick, blue for stone), with heights, uses, windows, party walls, hydrants, water mains and fire stations all marked. The index lists every street and every named business, church, school, hotel, mill and works with the sheet it appears on, and the key map places the colored sheet grid over the whole city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: the combined title and index sheet and all thirty-eight numbered map sheets, 1 to 38, sheet 1 being the key map with the fire and water report. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Bessemer address back to 1924.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e40 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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