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The sheets are reproduced in full color from the high-resolution scans held by the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, with fold lines, library stamps, and the copyright date left exactly as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn at fifty feet to the inch for fire insurance underwriters, the sheets show every building on the island at its exact footprint, colored by construction — yellow for wood frame, pink for brick, blue for stone — with height in stories, dashed lines for porches and sheds, and notes on roofs, boilers, watchmen, and lamps. Address numbers run along the building fronts and water-main diameters along the streets, so any block can be followed sheet to sheet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe index map opens the volume with the surveyors' census of the city's defenses: water piped from thirty flowing wells at Alta Loma, 487 hydrants, sixty-three firemen and four steam engines. Beyond it lie the Galveston Wharf Company's piers 10 to 36 with Elevators \"A\" and \"B\" and the Mallory and Morgan warehouses; a key map to the Cotton Compress and Warehouse District; four skeleton sheets of the congested blocks along the Strand; and the buildings of the city itself — the Grand Opera House, the Tremont Hotel, Ball High School, the Ursuline Academy, B'nai Israel, and the Garten Verein pavilion. Sheet 70 walks the beach, where three bath houses stood on posts above the surf and St. Mary's Orphans' Home appears in an inset; every structure on that sheet was taken by the sea on September 8, 1900.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Galveston as it stood before the seawall and the grade raising — an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Galveston and Texas history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e106 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":49872455729307,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 820073699042","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_b2902fd7-81c4-42ac-a7ac-935c77d191d7.jpg?v=1792532350"},{"product_id":"1900-fire-insurance-atlas-and-maps-of-austin-texas","title":"1900 Fire Insurance Atlas and Maps of Austin, Texas","description":"\u003cp\u003eA complete, full-color facsimile of Insurance Maps of Austin, Texas, published by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Limited, of 11 Broadway, New York, in 1900, and deposited at the Library of Congress that June. Fifty-four map sheets at a scale of fifty feet to an inch cover the Texas capital building by building, with the original decorated title sheet and full street and specials indexes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all Sanborn fire insurance maps, every structure is drawn to scale and color-coded by construction, with building uses, business names, water mains, and hydrants marked — a lot-by-lot record of Austin at the turn of the century. The sheets take in Congress Avenue and the State Capitol, the University, the Driskill Hotel, and neighborhoods from Hyde Park to South Austin, along with the working city the indexes enumerate: the dam and suburban railroad car barns, cotton yards, gins and oil mills, foundries, ice works, the Lone Star and Lemp's beer depots, Tillotson College, churches, schools, and hospitals — more than two hundred indexed streets and special buildings in all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e56 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":49872474275995,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 820073699069","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_323c44cc-ebbb-4ad0-88bf-abd225c0d4b3.jpg?v=1792532520"},{"product_id":"1908-el-paso-texas-sanborn-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas","title":"1908 El Paso, Texas Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a complete color facsimile of Insurance Maps of El Paso, Texas, published by the Sanborn Map Company of New York in 1908. All ninety-two sheets are reproduced in full color from the original survey, together with the engraved title plate, the full index, and the key map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSanborn 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 — and El Paso's key carries a category the eastern volumes do not: adobe, alongside fireproof construction, iron buildings, brick with metal cornice, frame, stone front, and iron-clad. The sheets record story heights, fire walls, iron doors and shutters, window openings by story, stables, brick and iron chimneys, steam boilers, automatic sprinklers, automatic fire alarms, independent electric plants, hydrants, and surveyed elevations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe key map is a border document. It runs from the Fort Bliss Military Reservation and the northeast mesa grid down through the business district to the Rio Grande, with the international boundary drawn across the bottom of the sheet and Ciudad Juárez, State of Chihuahua, Mexico beyond it. Concordia and Evergreen cemeteries, Highland Park, Altura Park and East El Paso are all covered, and the fire limits are marked in red.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA full street index, a \"Specials\" index of named firms and institutions, and a separate block index — block number to sheet number — make it possible to find any address, business or block. The Specials record a smelter and railroad town: the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting \u0026amp; Refining Co., the Federal Copper Co. smelter, the Mine and Smelter Supply Co. and the Pass City Foundry; the depots, shops and roundhouses of the Atchison, Topeka \u0026amp; Santa Fe, the El Paso \u0026amp; Southwestern, the Galveston, Harrisburg \u0026amp; San Antonio, the Southern Pacific and the Texas \u0026amp; Pacific; the Bassett, Burton Lingo, Caples-Williams and Galbraith-Foxworth lumber yards; the Brunswick-Balke-Collender wood works; Krakauer, Zork \u0026amp; Moye's hardware house; the Anheuser-Busch, San Antonio and El Paso brewing depots; the Carnegie Public Library, the Chamber of Commerce, City Hall, and the County Court House and Jail; the Orndorff, Grand Central, Angelus, St. Regis, Plaza and a dozen more hotels; and the city's Mexican congregations and schools — Iglesia Mexicana del Sur, the Mexican Congregational and Methodist Episcopal churches, San Ignacio Catholic Church, San Jacinto School and the Aoy Public School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe key map also carries the underwriters' report for 1908: a population of 45,000 on a datum plane 3,600 feet above sea level; water pumped from fourteen bored wells at the Fort Bliss Mesa six miles northeast; 50.94 miles of pipe and 198 triple hydrants; and a fire department of one chief, two assistants, twenty-two paid men and 160 volunteers across four stations. The surveyors also noted that the southern portion of the town, on sheets 61 to 66, was chiefly built of poles plastered with mud, with dirt roofs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReproduced from the copy in the Library of Congress. An essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of El Paso and West Texas history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e96 pages. 8.5\" x 11.25\". Full color. 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All eighty-two sheets are reproduced in full color from the original survey, together with the engraved title plate, the full index, the key map, and the paste-over correction sheets bound into the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSanborn 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 — and the 1910 Fort Worth key is unusually fine-grained: fireproof construction, iron buildings, brick with brick or metal cornice, with frame cornice, with stone front, with frame side, brick veneered, brick and frame, frame, iron clad, and adobe. The sheets also record story heights, fire walls, iron doors and shutters, window openings by story, stables, chimneys, steam boilers, surveyed elevations, and which buildings carried automatic sprinklers, automatic fire alarms, or an independent electric plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume includes something most Sanborn sets do not: a separate Map of the Congested District of Fort Worth, drawn at 200 feet to an inch, showing every building footprint downtown at a glance — fireproof, brick or stone, and frame construction distinguished by color, sprinklered buildings flagged, fire department houses marked in black, story heights printed inside the buildings and street widths printed in the streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe key map covers the city west of the volume line, from the Trinity River south through the business district and out past Rosedale, Magnolia and Jessamine. A full street index and a \"Specials\" index of named firms and institutions make it possible to find any address or business by sheet number. The Specials record a milling, lumber and railroad town: the Burrus Mill and Elevator Co., Bewley's roller mills and elevator, the Anchor Roller Mills and the Dazey-Moore Grain Co.; a dozen lumber and fuel yards, among them Adams Simpson, Barnell, Jones-Hurt, South Side, Cameron and G. W. 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All seventy-nine sheets are reproduced in full color from the original survey, together with the engraved title plate, the index, and the key map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe key map divides the city into seventy-nine blocks along the loops of the San Antonio River and San Pedro Creek, from Crockett Square and the northern additions down past Alamo Plaza, Main and Military plazas, Milam Square, Travis Park and Paschal Square to the U.S. Arsenal and the southern additions. It also carries something no other volume in this series does: a printed endorsement, signed by the city's insurance agents, asking that only the new street and block numbers of the new Sanborn map be used.\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 a city of two commercial worlds. On one side stand San Fernando Cathedral and its school, the Ursuline Convent, St. Mary's and St. Joseph's, the Incarnate Word church, St. Michael's Polish church, the Santa Rosa Hospital and St. John's Orphan Asylum. On the other, the German houses that ran the trade: the Menger, Maverick and Mahncke hotels, Joske Bros. and Hugo \u0026amp; Schmeltzer, Wolf \u0026amp; Marx and Halff \u0026amp; Bro., the Beethoven Maennerchor Hall, the German English School, the Turn Halle and Scholz' Beer Garden and Natatorium, Guenther's upper and lower flour mills, and the Lone Star, San Antonio, Degen and Ochs \u0026amp; Aschbacher breweries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAround them the working city: the Alamo Cement Works, the San Antonio Foundry, Gas Co. and Electric Light plant, the street railway plant, the Planters and San Antonio Milling cotton gins, the compress and oil works, lumber and wood yards, the Union Stock Yards, the International \u0026amp; Great Northern and Southern Pacific depots, yards and round house, the Grand Opera House and Washington Theatre, the new and old county court houses, City Hall, the Market House, and the U.S. Post Office and Custom House.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe index sheet also carries the underwriters' report for 1896: a population of 60,000; three pumping stations totalling eighteen million gallons a day, drawn from artesian wells that flowed thirty-five feet above the level of the suction pipe; a seven-million-gallon reservoir at 175 feet elevation; 100 miles of main and 700 hydrants; and a paid fire department of a chief, an assistant chief, fifty-five men and twenty-two horses, with four Ahrens steam engines and seventy-four alarm boxes. 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All thirty sheets are reproduced in full color from the original survey.\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 — yellow for frame, red for brick, blue for stone, gray for iron, brown for fireproof — with street numbers, relative building heights, fire walls, iron doors and shutters, window openings by story, stables, and fire stations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheet 1 carries the key map of the whole city, laid out between Nueces Bay and Corpus Christi Bay with Salt Lake behind the bluff, dividing the survey into thirty numbered sheets, together with a location map showing the town's place on the Texas Gulf coast.\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 a Gulf port that was also a resort: the Nueces, Seaside, Southern, State, Belden, Pavilion and Corpus Beach hotels, the Alta Vista Hotel and Sanitarium, the Natatorium, Loyd's Pavilion, the Golf \u0026amp; Country Club House, and the Epworth by the Sea Methodist camp meeting ground — set against a working waterfront of Dietsch's Wharf, the Central and municipal wharves, the Caldwell, Mormon and Trott cotton gins, the Taylor Grain and Elevator Co., the Sidbury, Southland, South Texas, Nueces, Hill and Carroll lumber companies, Armour and Swift meat warehouses, the Gulf Refining, Texas Company and Pierce-Fordyce oil depots, the Union Depot and the St. L. B. \u0026amp; M., S. A. \u0026amp; A. P. and T. M. railroad depots, City Hall, the County Court House and Jail, and Spohn Sanitarium. The index also names the city's Mexican and segregated institutions as they stood in 1914 — Corpus Christi College, the Mexican Club House, Presbyteriana Mexicana Iglesia, the Fourth Ward (Mexican) School, and the separate Negro high school and churches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheet 1 also carries the underwriters' report: a population of 17,000; twenty miles of water pipe drawing on the Nueces River sixteen miles northwest of town, with 200 double and 24 triple hydrants; and a fire department still all-volunteer but for a paid chief and two drivers, with an American LaFrance motor pumper on order for delivery by that January.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReproduced from the copy in the Library of Congress. An essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Corpus Christi and South Texas history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e32 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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Seventy-nine map sheets at a scale of fifty feet to an inch cover the whole city in a single volume, with the original decorated title sheet and full street and specials indexes — a portrait of the bayou cotton port five years before Spindletop made it the capital of Texas oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all Sanborn fire insurance maps, every structure is drawn to scale and color-coded by construction, with building uses, business names, water mains, and hydrants marked — a lot-by-lot record of nineteenth-century Houston. The sheets take in the county court house, the Cotton Exchange Building, the Capitol Hotel and Hutchins House, the City Market House, Sweeney \u0026amp; Coombs' Opera House, and Baldwin's Natatorium, along with the working city the indexes enumerate: Grand Central Depot and the depots, shops, and roundhouses of five railroads; the Bayou City, Cleveland, Inman, and Standard cotton compresses; cotton oil mills and gins; the Magnolia Brewery and American Brewing Association; foundries, lumber yards, and soap works; churches, synagogues, schools, and St. Joseph's Infirmary — with coverage reaching the new streets of Houston Heights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition reproduces the Library of Congress copy from its full-resolution master scans. An essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Houston and Texas history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e83 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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The sheets follow Elm, Main, and Commerce through the business district and out to Oak Cliff across the Trinity River and the State Fair grounds, taking in the county court house, the U.S. Government Building, the Grand Windsor and Oriental hotels, the Opera House, and the working city the indexes enumerate: cotton compresses and cotton oil mills, planing mills and iron works, breweries and ice plants, the Morning News and Times Herald printing houses, railroad freight depots, schools, churches, and synagogues — more than two hundred indexed streets and special buildings in all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition reproduces the Library of Congress copy from its full-resolution master scans. An essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Dallas and Texas history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e95 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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The entire atlas is reproduced in color: all 103 numbered street maps surveyed at 50 feet to an inch, plus two supplemental sheets, the city-wide key map, the congested-district overview, and the full street and building index.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeaumont in 1911 was a city of 30,000 riding the oil boom that began at Spindletop a decade earlier. The Sanborn surveyors recorded it building by building — footprint, construction (pink for brick, yellow for frame), story height, and street address — from the courthouse blocks around Pearl, Orleans, and Bowie Streets to the great rail yards of the Southern Pacific, the Gulf, Colorado \u0026amp; Santa Fe, and the Frisco system. The index locates hundreds of named landmarks of working Beaumont: the Gulf Pipe Line Company, the Oil Well Supply Company, the McFaddin-Wiess-Kyle rice mill, Kirby Lumber Company yards, the Pabst beer depot, the Kyle and Lyric theatres, Hotel Dieu hospital, and the wharves and sawmills along the Neches River. The key map even records the city's vital statistics — its waterworks, its fire department of a chief and 31 paid men, and its 15½ miles of paved streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone researching a Beaumont property, the Sanborn atlas is the definitive record of what stood on a lot a century ago. An essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Texas and Gulf Coast history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e110 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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Every building is drawn in plan and color-coded by construction — brick, frame, stone, concrete, fireproof — with the number of stories, roof and wall materials, window and door openings, elevators, sprinklers, steam boilers, fire escapes, and the name of the business inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sheets cover the business district around Austin Avenue and the courthouse, the Brazos River crossings and the cotton compresses and oil mills along the railroads, the residential blocks out to the city limits, and East Waco across the river. Landmarks appear building by building: Waco High School in reinforced concrete, the Catholic Church of the Assumption and the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Baylor University, Paul Quinn College, the Amicable Life Insurance building, Sanger Bros. department store, the county courthouse and jail, the Orpheum and Hippodrome theatres, the Texas Cotton Palace, Temple Rodef Sholom, and the Natatorium, Metropole, and Raleigh hotels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the maps were drawn for fire underwriters rather than for tourists, they record what other sources leave out — warehouses, gins, laundries, garages, filling stations, boarding houses, and the segregated schools and churches of 1920s Waco, each named and located.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone tracing a specific address, a vanished neighborhood, or a Waco business, these sheets record the city in a detail no other source preserves — an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Texas history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e100 pages. 8.5\" x 11.25\". 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