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The volume opens with the surveyor's report on a city of 70,000 people and a key map of the whole survey, then covers Memphis in thirty-two double-page sheets: the cotton warehouses, compresses and wharves along the Mississippi bluff, Front and Main Streets, Court Square and the wholesale blocks, the rail yards along the Wolf River, Beale and Vance Streets, and the residential additions spreading east.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the 1888 Memphis survey, reproduced complete and in full color from the copy held by the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress: the report and index, the key map and all thirty-two numbered sheets, each double-page plate laid out as a two-page spread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e68 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas opens on a report and index of every street and named building, then a key map of the whole city, and works block by block through the wholesale houses and warehouses along the Cumberland River wharf, the Public Square, Market Street and Broad Street, the churches, colleges and hospitals on the hills, the tobacco and cotton warehouses, and the mills, foundries and depots along the railroads. The surveyors' own report puts the population at 75,000, with a paid fire department of forty-six men, four Ahrens steamers and 350 hydrants fed from the new Cumberland River water works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition reproduces the volume complete and in full colour: the report and index sheet, the key map and all forty numbered double-page sheets, each laid out as a two-page spread. It is a working reference for historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Nashville address back to the 1880s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e84 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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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, foundry and mill with the sheet it appears on, and the key map places the colored sheet grid over the whole city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ninety numbered sheets work block by block from the stores, banks and hotels along Market and Broad Streets and the wholesale district near the river, through the passenger and freight depots and yards of the railroads, the iron furnaces, foundries, rolling mills and lumber yards along the river and Chattanooga Creek, to the residential streets of Fort Wood, Highland Park and the neighborhoods out toward Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. Two 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 numbered map sheets and the two skeleton sheets. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Chattanooga address back to 1901.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e96 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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Four skeleton sheets record the block outlines of the densest blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas as it survives: the title page, the index sheet, the key map, the seventy numbered map sheets present in the source copy (sheet 26 is wanting) and the four skeleton sheets. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Knoxville address back to 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e78 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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