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Cleveland's strategic position on Lake Erie had made the city a major transportation and manufacturing hub, and this atlas captures the county in remarkable detail just before Cleveland's centennial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas opens with an outline plan of Cuyahoga County and a table of distances and population. The bulk of the first half is devoted to the City of Cleveland, with detailed maps of all eighteen wards (including north and south sections of several wards, and east and west parts of the Fourteenth Ward), plus the Cleveland Business Directory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTownship maps cover Bedford, Brecksville, Brooklyn, Chagrin Falls, Dover, East Cleveland, Euclid, Independence, Mayfield, Middleburg, Newburgh, Olmsted, Orange, Parma, Rockport, Royalton, Solon, Strongsville, and Warrensville.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn index to towns and villages includes Albion, Bedford, Berea, Brecksville, Brighton, Broadway, Chagrin Falls, Collamer, Collinwood, Glenville, Grafton, Independence, Linndale, Newburgh, Nottingham, Olmsted Falls, Rocky River, Royalton, Solon, Strongsville, Warrensville, West Cleveland (North Part and South Part), and West View, among others — many of which have since been absorbed into present-day Cleveland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas also features 129 lithographic views of residences, farms, commercial buildings, and public institutions, with an index listing the properties of over 150 individual subscribers. These views depict the architecture, landscapes, and daily life of Cuyahoga County's prosperous residents and local businesses, reflecting the subscription-based publishing model common to nineteenth-century county atlases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for genealogists researching Cuyahoga County families, historians of Cleveland and northeastern Ohio, and collectors of nineteenth-century American cartography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872388423835,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 358467555394","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_5f17085b-eea6-4c46-aa68-2e373242b73f.jpg?v=1792531830"},{"product_id":"1869-atlas-of-hamilton-county-ohio-cincinnati","title":"1869 Atlas of Hamilton County, Ohio (Cincinnati)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis full-color facsimile reproduces the Titus' Atlas of Hamilton County, Ohio, originally published in Philadelphia in 1869 by C.O. Titus and compiled from actual surveys by civil engineer R.H. Harrison. The atlas provides one of the most detailed cartographic records of Hamilton County and the City of Cincinnati during the post–Civil War era, when Cincinnati — then known as the \"Queen City of the West\" — was among the largest and most industrially significant cities in the United States. With ten detailed maps of Cincinnati alongside township and town plans covering the surrounding county, the atlas captures the region at a pivotal moment of urban expansion and industrial growth along the Ohio River.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas opens with a title page, table of contents, table of distances, and an outline map of Hamilton County with explanation. The body of the work is organized into three principal sections: township and town plans covering the county, detailed ward-by-ward mapping of the City of Cincinnati, and supplementary reference maps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe township and town plans cover Whitewater, Miami, Harrison, Crosby, Green, Delhi, Storrs, Springfield, Sycamore, Colerain, Columbia, Symmes, Anderson, Spencer, Mill Creek, and Colerain townships, along with plans of numerous towns and villages including North Bend, Cleves, Elizabethtown, Miamitown, Harrison, Springfield, New Baltimore, New Haven, Riverside, Home City, Delhi, Cheviot, Plainville, Glendale, Hartwell, Pleasant Ridge, Lockland, Reading, Greenwood, O'Bryonsville, Pendleton, Camp Dennison, Montauk, Oakley, Camden City, Mount Pleasant, Madisonville, Sharpsburg, Columbia, Mount Washington, Dunlap, Winton Place, St. Peters, Avondale, Newtown, Montgomery, Cumminsville, Carthage, New Burlington, Corryville, Clifton, St. Bernard, Walnut Hills, Woodburn, California, Camp Washington, Clifton Heights, College Hill, Sharon, Fairmount, and Mount Harrison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe City of Cincinnati is presented through an outline map of the city and vicinity, followed by ten detailed ward plans: Part I (16th Ward), Part II (14th and 15th Wards), Part III (5th, 7th, and 10th Wards), Part IV (2nd, 4th, and 14th Wards), Part V (1st and 3rd Wards), Part VI (9th and 13th Wards), Part VII (17th and part of 20th Wards), Part VIII (part of 20th Ward), Part IX (11th and 19th Wards), and Part X (12th and 18th Wards).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas concludes with a township map of the State of Ohio, an outline and railroad map of the United States, and steel engravings of Longview Asylum with an accompanying description.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e68 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872388554907,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 358482581901","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_8ef64a24-8045-40a4-9594-64ae9c892751.jpg?v=1792531831"},{"product_id":"1877-illustrated-atlas-of-the-upper-ohio-river-valley-pittsburgh-to-cincinnati-1","title":"1877 Illustrated Atlas of the Upper Ohio River \u0026 Valley Pittsburgh to Cincinnati","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis full-color facsimile reproduces what David Rumsey describes as \"perhaps the most extraordinary 'county atlas' produced in the 19th century.\" Originally published in Philadelphia in 1877 by Titus, Simmons \u0026amp; Titus and compiled by cartographer E.L. Hayes, the work is regional in scope — covering both sides of the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati through Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky — but follows the format of a traditional county atlas, combining detailed cartography with lithographic views and directories of the towns, cities, residences, and businesses along the river. The atlas pairs continuous river mapping with intimate portraits of valley life: steamboats working the channel, factory interiors and exteriors, farms, mansions, and commercial establishments from the industrial heart of Pittsburgh to the river ports of the Ohio Valley. Surviving copies have become scarce, as many were broken up by dealers for their individual maps and views.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas opens with a title page, table of contents, and an Index Map of the Upper Ohio River and Valley spanning pages 6–7. The main body of the work is organized into three principal sections: River Work, Cities, Towns, Boroughs, and Villages, and Views.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe River Work section is divided into twenty-six numbered Parts, providing continuous detailed mapping of the Ohio River from Pittsburgh downstream to Cincinnati, with each Part keyed to the index map for easy navigation along the river's course.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cities, Towns, Boroughs, and Villages index covers hundreds of communities along the river and its tributaries across four states. Featured locations include Aberdeen, Allegheny, Ashland, Beaver, Bellevue, Bridgeport, Cannelton, Carrollton, Catlettsburg, Charlestown, Chester, Cincinnati, Clarington, Coal Grove, Coraopolis, East Liverpool, Economy, Elizabeth, Empire, Fairmount, Gallipolis, Greenup, Hanging Rock, Harmar, Huntington, Ironton, Kenova, Lawrenceburg, Leetonia, Madison, Manchester, Marietta, Martins Ferry, Maysville, McKeesport, Middleport, Moundsville, New Albany, New Cumberland, New Martinsville, New Richmond, New Vienna, Newport, Parkersburg, Paducah, Pittsburgh, Pomeroy, Portsmouth, Ripley, Rockport, Rochester, Sewickley, Shawneetown, Sistersville, Steubenville, Vanceburg, Wellsburg, Wheeling, Williamstown, and Wrightsville, among many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Views section presents lithographic illustrations of prominent residences, farms, commercial establishments, hotels, factories, and public buildings throughout the valley, with an extensive index of subscribers and properties. Notable views include the Grand Central Hotel, Hardisty City Coal and Salt Company, Linden Female Academy, Mount St. Vincent Female Academy, Rockville House, Sistersville Female Seminary, and dozens of private estates and industrial works that document the architecture, industry, and prosperity of Ohio River communities at the height of the steamboat and early railroad era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are business directory notices throughout the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Compilation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas was compiled and drawn for the publishers from United States official and special surveys by E.L. Hayes, with assistance from E.F. Hayes, C.M. Beresford, S.A. Charpiot, F.L. Sanford, and J.H. Sherman. The maps were engraved by Worley \u0026amp; Bracher, printed by H.J. Toudy \u0026amp; Co., and bound by Oldach \u0026amp; Mergenthaler, all of Philadelphia. Lithographic views were contributed by A. Ruger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for genealogists tracing families along the Ohio River corridor, historians of nineteenth-century American river commerce and industry, and collectors of antiquarian American cartography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872388751515,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 358512178052","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_cd397b4c-989a-4809-be1a-d0f5833026c9.jpg?v=1792531835"},{"product_id":"1881-atlas-map-of-the-ohio-river-from-pittsburgh-to-cairo-illinois","title":"1881 Atlas Map of the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis facsimile reproduces the Map of the Ohio River, an exhaustive cartographic survey of the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, prepared by the United States Army Corps of Engineers under the direction of Major William E. Merrill, drawn by C. Moser, and published in 1881. The work consolidates and refines decades of federal river surveys, drawing on the 1837–38 work of Lieutenant Sanders, the 1844 surveys of C.A. Fuller, the 1867–68 surveys of W.M. Roberts, and additions and corrections from later expeditions. The result is what is generally regarded as the most comprehensive and detailed survey of the Ohio River produced in the nineteenth century — a working reference for the engineers, river pilots, and commercial interests who depended on the Ohio as the principal commercial artery of the central United States during the steamboat and early railroad era. Major Merrill is the same officer whose name appears on the Warren–Freyhold Map of the United States and the Map of Kansas, Texas and Indian Territory, both issued in 1867.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas presents 52 highly detailed uncolored maps on 40 sheets, accompanied by 2 index sheets that key each individual plate to its location along the river's course. Together the plates document the full length of the Ohio from its origins at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, downstream through West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois to its mouth at Cairo, where it joins the Mississippi. Each sheet records channel depths and navigational features, islands and sandbars, river bends and shoals, locks and dams, wharves and landings, riverside towns and settlements, tributary streams, railroad crossings and bridges, and adjacent topographic detail with the precision required by a federal engineering survey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for historians of nineteenth-century American river commerce and inland navigation, researchers of Army Corps of Engineers history and federal infrastructure development, genealogists tracing families along the Ohio River corridor, and collectors of antiquarian American cartography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e82 pages. 8.5\" x 11\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872410607771,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 358606753953","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_957c435d-c8a5-41d8-91ae-477c8988b063.jpg?v=1792531994"},{"product_id":"1872-new-topographical-atlas-of-the-state-of-ohio-county-maps-of-ohio","title":"1872 New Topographical Atlas of the State of Ohio: County Maps of Ohio","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis full-color facsimile reproduces the maps from the New Topographical Atlas of the State of Ohio, originally published in Cincinnati in 1872 by Stedman, Brown \u0026amp; Lyon, compiled by Henry Francis Walling and Ormando Willis Gray, civil and topographical engineers, with H.H. Lloyd \u0026amp; Co. of New York. Please note: this reprint includes only the maps from the original atlas; the historical, scientific, and statistical descriptions are not included. Walling and Gray were two of the most prolific and respected American cartographers of the nineteenth century — Walling had directed state geological surveys in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Michigan, while Gray was the chief compiler for many of the period's leading commercial atlas publishers — and their collaboration on the Ohio atlas produced one of the most comprehensive cartographic surveys of the state issued during the post–Civil War period. By 1872, Ohio was the third-most-populous state in the Union, anchored by Cincinnati on the Ohio River, Cleveland on Lake Erie, and a rapidly industrializing interior connected by an extensive network of railroads and canals, and the atlas captures the state in remarkable detail at the height of its nineteenth-century commercial and agricultural prominence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas presents detailed county-by-county maps covering all eighty-eight counties of Ohio, with each county map showing townships, towns and villages, roads, railroads, watercourses, and topographic features at a scale sufficient to identify individual settlements and the principal landowners or institutions of the period. Many maps include insets of county seats and major towns, showing street grids and ward boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas also includes general reference maps of the United States and its territories, a world map and continental maps placing Ohio within the broader geographic context, and supplementary state and regional maps typical of the comprehensive American atlases of the era. Together, the maps document Ohio at a pivotal moment in its development — when its place as the industrial and agricultural heartland of the Midwest had been firmly established, and the patterns of settlement, infrastructure, and political geography that would shape the state into the twentieth century were largely in place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for genealogists researching Ohio families, historians of nineteenth-century American settlement and infrastructure, county and local historians across the state, and collectors of antiquarian American cartography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872411590811,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 358638464284","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_23b972c0-e579-4c53-8de2-f308e4f7067f.jpg?v=1792531996"},{"product_id":"1874-illustrated-historical-atlas-of-ottawa-county-ohio","title":"1874 Illustrated Historical Atlas of Ottawa County, Ohio","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis facsimile reproduces the Illustrated Historical Atlas of Ottawa County, Ohio, compiled from recent and actual surveys and records under the superintendence of L.Q. Hardesty, Civil Engineer, and published in Chicago in 1874 by H.H. Hardesty. The atlas captures Ottawa County at a moment of rapid growth and economic transformation, when the Lake Erie islands and the southern shore of the lake were emerging as important centers of viticulture, commercial fishing, lake shipping, and resort tourism. Located on the western basin of Lake Erie, Ottawa County combined a productive agricultural mainland with the famous Bass Islands and Catawba Island — landscapes already celebrated by the 1870s for their vineyards, wineries, and summer visitors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas opens with statistics and a plan of land descriptions, followed by a railroad map of Ohio and an outline map of Ottawa County. A view of the Wehrle, Werk \u0026amp; Sons' Wine Cellar appears among the early plates, and the volume includes a multi-page history of Ottawa County running across approximately twelve pages, followed by an extensive Subscribers' References for Ottawa County providing biographical and property information about the atlas's patrons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe principal cartographic content includes detailed maps covering Bay, Benton, Carroll, Catawba Island, Clay, Danbury, Erie, Harris, Portage, and Salem townships, alongside maps of Put-in-Bay Island (including the South Shore Division), Middle Bass Island, North Bass Island, and Ottawa City. Village and town plats are included for Carroll, Clay Center, Elliston, Elmore, Genoa, Martin, Middleton, Oak Harbor, Port Clinton, and Sheldon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas is illustrated with lithographic views of more than two dozen residences, businesses, and public buildings throughout the county, including the residences of Andrew Wehrle, M. Burggraff, John Lutes, Wm. Rehberg (with portraits of Wm. Rehberg and wife), Simon Fox, John Rehberg (with L.S. Brown's Dock and portraits of John Rehberg and wife), H.J. Miller, John Shultz, Lorenz Muller (with the Island House), John Hanck, John Stone, Henry Ludwig, Andrew Schiele, Christian Schwartz, E. Franck, Charles Roose, P. Vroman, C. Schleuse, Geo. B. Heller, D. Henricle, John G. Starkloff, Mrs. Buddenhagen, the Educational Building at Port Clinton, the residence of C. Messerschmidt, and the Court-house. The views document the architecture, agriculture, and commercial life of Ottawa County's prosperous residents during the lake-shore boom years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBusiness Directories for the principal communities — Port Clinton, Oak Harbor, Elmore, and Genoa — list merchants, professionals, manufacturers, and tradesmen by name, occupation, and location, along with a Miscellaneous Business Directory covering smaller communities. Together with the Subscribers' References, the directories make the atlas an exceptionally rich resource for family and commercial research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for genealogists researching Ottawa County and Lake Erie shore families, historians of nineteenth-century Ohio viticulture and Great Lakes commerce, Put-in-Bay and Bass Islands historians, and collectors of antiquarian American cartography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e72 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". 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According to David Rumsey, \"This atlas gives a detailed cartographic record of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, and the surrounding areas in Cuyahoga County in 1892. 52 maps show Cleveland. Cram was known mostly for his world atlases and occasional regional atlases. This city and county atlas may be one of the few that he published.\" The atlas captures Cleveland at a pivotal moment in its transformation into one of the great industrial centers of America, anchored by John D. 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The ward maps show street grids, individual property lots, parks, public buildings, railroads, and named landowners and institutions in remarkable detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutside the city, the atlas presents detailed maps covering Bedford, Brecksville, Brooklyn, Chagrin Falls, Collinwood, East Cleveland, Euclid, Glenville, Independence, Middleburgh, Newburgh, Olmsted, Orange, Parma, Rockport, Royalton, Solon, Strongsville, and Warrensville townships, along with individual maps of village and suburb communities including Albion, Bedford (North and South Parts), Berea, Brecksville, Brooklyn, Chagrin Falls, Collinwood, Dover Centre, East Cleveland, Euclid Heights, Gates Mills, Glenville, Lakewood, Linndale, Mayfield, Newburgh, Nottingham, Oakland Park, Olmsted Falls, Parma, River Bank, Solon, Sorrento Park, South Brooklyn, Strongsville Center, Warrensville, West Cleveland, and West View. Detailed maps of named allotments and additions — Cottage Home, Dover Bay Park, Dover Township Allotment, Eagle Cliff Park, East View Addition, Fairlawn, Newburgh Township Allotments, and others — document the real estate subdivision activity reshaping the metropolitan area in the 1890s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA section of portraits and biographies profiles fifteen prominent Cleveland citizens, including Stevenson Burke, William Chisholm, John H. Devereux, William J. Gordon, Truman P. Handy, Philander L. Johnson, Levi Johnson, Henry B. Payne, Joseph Perkins, Nathan Perry, Daniel P. Rhodes, Joel Scranton, and J.H. Van Dorn, alongside biographical sketches running from pages 121 to 125.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA miscellaneous section includes a historical sketch of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, a Business References directory, a Gas Directory, a list of Cleveland Letter Boxes, the locations of public buildings, post offices, fire and police departments, a Recorder's Index to Maps, Plats and Allotments, a Table of Distances, and a view of Dover Bay Park.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for genealogists researching Cleveland and Cuyahoga County families, historians of late nineteenth-century American industrial urbanism, architectural and real-estate historians documenting the rapid suburbanization of Greater Cleveland in the 1890s, and collectors of antiquarian American cartography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872413622427,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 358668212546","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_e9c657e7-369a-4fbf-a408-bb99c93a28ca.jpg?v=1792532000"},{"product_id":"illustrations-of-the-nests-and-eggs-of-birds-of-ohio-1886","title":"Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio (1886)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in Circleville, Ohio, in 1886, this is one of the great achievements of nineteenth-century American natural history — a folio devoted entirely to the nests and eggs of Ohio's birds, illustrated in hand-finished chromolithograph plates. This edition is a complete color facsimile, reproducing all of the original plates together with Dr. Howard Jones's full text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work began with Genevieve Estelle Jones, who resolved after seeing Audubon's plates at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition to create something Audubon had left undone: a faithful record of birds' nests and eggs, drawn from fresh specimens at life size. She taught herself to draw on lithographic stone, but died of typhoid fever in 1879, aged thirty-two, with only a few plates complete. Her mother, Mrs. N. E. Jones, took up the brush and, over seven more years and with the help of several Circleville women, finished the plates; Dr. Howard Jones, Genevieve's brother, wrote the accompanying text from nests he collected himself. The result, sometimes called \"the other Audubon,\" was issued to a small list of subscribers and survives in very few copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis facsimile preserves the complete work: the plates of nests and eggs, the natural-history text describing each species, the preface recounting the family's long labor, and the detailed keys and comparative tables of Ohio's birds. It is an essential volume for collectors of antiquarian natural-history prints, ornithologists and oologists, birders, and anyone drawn to one of the most remarkable and human stories in American scientific publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e191 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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According to David Rumsey, \"This atlas gives a detailed cartographic record of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, and the surrounding areas in Cuyahoga County in 1892. 52 maps show Cleveland. Cram was known mostly for his world atlases and occasional regional atlases. This city and county atlas may be one of the few that he published.\" The atlas captures Cleveland at a pivotal moment in its transformation into one of the great industrial centers of America, anchored by John D. 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The ward maps show street grids, individual property lots, parks, public buildings, railroads, and named landowners and institutions in remarkable detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutside the city, the atlas presents detailed maps covering Bedford, Brecksville, Brooklyn, Chagrin Falls, Collinwood, East Cleveland, Euclid, Glenville, Independence, Middleburgh, Newburgh, Olmsted, Orange, Parma, Rockport, Royalton, Solon, Strongsville, and Warrensville townships, along with individual maps of village and suburb communities including Albion, Bedford (North and South Parts), Berea, Brecksville, Brooklyn, Chagrin Falls, Collinwood, Dover Centre, East Cleveland, Euclid Heights, Gates Mills, Glenville, Lakewood, Linndale, Mayfield, Newburgh, Nottingham, Oakland Park, Olmsted Falls, Parma, River Bank, Solon, Sorrento Park, South Brooklyn, Strongsville Center, Warrensville, West Cleveland, and West View. 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It reproduces all thirty-six double-page plates (numbered 81–116), together with the original street and specials index and the volume key map, from the master scans in the Library of Congress Sanborn Maps Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere Volumes 1 and 2 covered the downtown core and the near East and West Sides, Volume 3 maps outer Cleveland: the Broadway corridor running southeast through Newburgh, the East Side avenues — Woodland, Scovill, Cedar, Kinsman, and Euclid Avenue — the village of Glenville on the lakeshore, and Brooklyn on the west side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is also the Standard Oil volume. In 1887 Cleveland was the refining capital of the company John D. Rockefeller had founded there seventeen years earlier, and its facilities spread across seven of these plates: Works No. 1 fills plates 96 through 98, with the filling and tank yards, storage tanks, and the Clark Oil Works mapped nearby — each still house, tank, and cooper shop drawn at lot level. Around them the plates record the Cleveland Rolling Mill Co., the Cleveland Axle Co., the State Insane Asylum, the Jewish Orphan Asylum, and breweries such as Schmidt \u0026amp; Hoffmann, all named in the original index reproduced here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether you are researching a specific address, tracing a family through Newburgh or Glenville, or studying Cleveland's industrial rise, this atlas is an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Cleveland history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e76 pages. 8.5\" x 11.25\". Full color. 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B. and Shiloh Baptist churches and the Salvation Army, the County Fair Grounds, and the residential streets of the city and of Roscoe with its school, post office, churches and the Ohio Canal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn August 1925 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Coshocton and Roscoe for the fire-insurance trade, drawing them 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 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: all thirty numbered map sheets, 1 to 30, sheet 1 being the combined title, index and key map sheet with its report on the water works and fire department, the others covering the city from the Court House square and Main Street to the potteries, glass works and advertising-novelty factories, the Fair Grounds, the Clow foundry and the village of Roscoe across the Ohio Canal. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Coshocton address back to 1925.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e32 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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Every plate is reproduced in full color from the original survey, including the corrected paste-over sheets bound into the volume.\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 of the 101 numbered sheets shows individual buildings block by block, color-coded by construction — yellow for frame, red for brick, blue for stone, gray for iron — with street numbers, lot lines, building heights and stories, window and door openings, roof and cornice types, elevators, boilers, and the position of every hydrant, cistern, standpipe, and fire-alarm box.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1891 city is here entire. The volume opens with a key map of the whole survey, then works block by block through the State House square and the downtown business district, the Ohio Penitentiary and its prison shops, the Ohio State Fair Grounds, the United States Military Post, the Panhandle railroad shops, and the buggy works, foundries, planing mills, breweries, malt houses, machine shops and slaughter houses strung along the railroad corridors and the Scioto. Beyond the center it maps the residential additions spreading north and east — Dennison, Mt. Pleasant, Neil's, Hubbard's, Eastwood — out past Goodale Park, Franklin Park, and City Park, with Franklinton across the river.\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. 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Beyond it are Wick Park, Mill Creek Park with Lake Glacier and Lake Cohasset, Idora Park at the end of the line, the Ursuline Academy, the North Eastern Ohio Normal School, the county infirmary, the breweries and the cold storage houses — and, on the last sheets, the village of Canfield.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone tracing a specific address, a vanished neighborhood, or a Youngstown business, these sheets record the city in a detail no other source preserves — an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Ohio history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e98 pages. 8.5\" x 11.25\". Full color. 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