{"title":"Louisiana","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacsimile reprints of Sanborn fire insurance atlases, county and state atlases, and other historical works for Louisiana.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1883-robinsons-atlas-of-the-city-of-new-orleans-louisiana","title":"1883 Robinson's Atlas of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1883, New York surveyors Elisha Robinson and Roger H. Pidgeon published one of the most detailed maps ever made of nineteenth-century New Orleans: a great folio atlas recording the city street by street and lot by lot. This edition reproduces all thirty plates of the original in full color, from digital images of the copy preserved in the New Orleans Notarial Archives. The original edition's index maps were not digitized and are not included; a publisher's guide to the plate arrangement is provided in their place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas covers all seven municipal districts of the city as it stood in 1883. Here is the Vieux Carré — the French Quarter — with Faubourg Tremé beside it; the American commercial quarter of Faubourg St. Marie, the Cotton Press District, and Lee Circle; the Lower Garden District and Garden District mansions of the Fourth District; Faubourg Marigny, Bywater, and the Fairgrounds downriver; Algiers Point across the Mississippi; and the upriver neighborhoods of Bouligny, Black Pearl, and Carrollton. Individual lots, block numbers, street names, and waterfront wharves are recorded throughout, making it possible to locate a single property as it existed nearly a century and a half ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong a standard reference at the Notarial Archives for tracing New Orleans property, the Robinson atlas is an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of New Orleans and Louisiana history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e62 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872473850011,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 820073699058","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_37f9bf1d-6f2d-4f08-a2c5-a31736df9216.jpg?v=1792532516"},{"product_id":"1896-new-orleans-louisiana-sanborn-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-volume-one","title":"1896 New Orleans, Louisiana Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas, Volume One","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a complete color facsimile of Volume One of Insurance Maps of New Orleans, Louisiana, published by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Limited, of 115 Broadway, New York, in 1896. All ninety-one sheets are reproduced in full color from the original survey, together with the engraved title plate, the index, the key map, and the paste-over correction sheets bound into the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume One is the Creole city. The key map runs from the Mississippi River and Jackson Square through the whole French Quarter grid — Decatur, Chartres, Royal, Bourbon, Dauphine, Burgundy and Rampart — with Canal Street at its edge and Volume Four beyond it. From there it crosses Basin and the Old Basin past the St. Louis cemeteries into Tremé, down Esplanade and Elysian Fields into Faubourg Marigny, out through the Seventh Ward to Broad and Bayou Road, and along Bayou St. John and the Grand Route to the Fair Grounds and the Louisiana Jockey Club.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA full street index and a separate \"Specials\" index of named firms and institutions make it possible to find any address or business by sheet number. What they record is the old city entire: the St. Louis Cathedral, the French Opera House, the French Market, the U.S. Mint and the U.S. Custom House and Post Office, the Supreme Court of Louisiana and the Second District Court, Tulane Medical College, the Grand Opera House, D. H. Holmes' department store, the Louisiana Sugar Exchange and the American Sugar Refining Co., the Jackson and American breweries, the Crescent, Planters, Lanaux, Socola and St. Louis rice mills, Leidenheimer's bakery, the cooperages and shoe factories, and the French, Tremé, Lebreton, St. Bernard and Rocheblave markets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt also names the institutions of Black and immigrant New Orleans as they stood in 1896: the Asile Thomy-Lafon, the Sisters of the Holy Family Convent, Morris Brown Church, the African M.E. Church, the Negro Public School at 308 N. Robertson, St. Peter's Baptist Church, the Union Française, the Lusitanian Portuguese Benevolent Association, the Italian Catholic Church, St. Johannes' Evangelical Lutheran Church and School, and the Convent du Mont Carmel — alongside eight McDonogh schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe index sheet also carries the underwriters' report for 1896: a population of 285,000; water works in private hands, drawing from the Mississippi through Allis and Knowles pumps into a 168-foot standpipe and four reservoirs, with 98½ miles of cast-iron pipe; 1,429 hydrants of six different patterns at an average pressure of thirty-two pounds, plus sixty-one fire wells; and a fire department of 275 officers and men with twenty-six engines, nine chemical engines and a water tower. A note records that many hydrants appear on the sheets with no water pipe behind them — ordered by the City Council, and not yet laid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn at fifty feet to an inch, Sanborn fire insurance maps are the most detailed record that survives of an American city's built fabric. Each sheet shows individual buildings block by block, color-coded by construction — fireproof, iron, brick with metal cornice, frame or stone front, brick specials, and frame — with story heights, roof materials, mansard roofs in iron or frame, fire walls, division-wall iron doors, iron shutters, window openings by story, skylights, stables, chimneys, steam boilers, hydrants and fire-alarm boxes. The New Orleans key carries a symbol most volumes do not: D.W., for dormer windows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReproduced from the copy in the Library of Congress. Volume One of the set. An essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of New Orleans and Louisiana history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e110 pages. 8.5\" x 11.25\". Full color. Hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872474505371,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 820108481897","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_c3146635-2604-484a-9d51-97cf1ef9af69.jpg?v=1792532523"}],"url":"https:\/\/tangletownpress.com\/collections\/state-louisiana.oembed","provider":"Tangletown Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}