{"title":"Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacsimile reprints of Sanborn fire insurance atlases, county and state atlases, and other historical works for Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1877-illustrated-atlas-of-the-city-of-richmond-virginia-post-civil-war","title":"1877 Illustrated Atlas of the City of Richmond Virginia Post Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis facsimile reproduces the Illustrated Atlas of the City of Richmond, Virginia, published in 1877 by F.W. Beers, Civil Engineer, for the Southern and Southwestern Surveying and Publishing Company, with business managers A. Enslow Jr. and P. Brown, and offices at 2 Goddin Hall, Richmond, and Concord, Virginia. The atlas captures Richmond just over a decade after the end of the Civil War, during the Reconstruction-era rebuilding of the former Confederate capital. F.W. Beers was among the most prolific American atlas publishers of the late nineteenth century, and the Richmond volume is one of the relatively few Southern city atlases the firm produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note on This Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis facsimile is assembled primarily from the Library of Congress copy of the atlas, with selected views and the Richmond city business notices reproduced from the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries copy. The eight pages of business notices included in this edition were not listed in the original Table of Contents, and are added here as a substantial supplement to the cartographic content.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas opens with an outline or index plan of Richmond, followed by detailed sectional maps of the city organized alphabetically from Section A through Section T, each covering one or more of the city's wards — Jackson, Marshall, Clay, Monroe, Madison, Jefferson, and Manchester wards across the full geographic extent of Richmond. Each section is keyed to specific streets and boundaries, with descriptions running from Allen Street east to 10th Street and Bacon Street south to Duval Street in Section A, through to 14th Street south to City Line and James River east to Maury Street in Section T. The maps show street grids, individual property lots, named landowners and institutions, public buildings, railroads, and major industrial works including the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad lines, the Richmond, Fredericksburg \u0026amp; Potomac and Petersburg Railroad shops, Harvey's Nursery, Oakwood Cemetery, Marshall Reservoir, Belle Isle, and the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works. Coverage extends across the James River to include Manchester, then a separate municipality and now part of South Richmond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas is illustrated with a series of lithographic views including the St. James Hotel of Richmond, the Richmond Stove Company, the St. Claire Hotel of Richmond, the American Hotel of Richmond, and views of regional resort destinations including Healing Springs, Virginia; Wallawhatoola Springs, Virginia; and Old Sweet Springs, West Virginia — capturing the Virginia spa-and-springs tradition that drew genteel visitors to the Appalachian mineral resorts throughout the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume also includes eight pages of Richmond city business notices providing biographical and commercial information about the merchants, manufacturers, professionals, and tradesmen of the post-war city — a section that makes the atlas an exceptionally rich resource for family, commercial, and industrial research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for genealogists researching Richmond and Virginia families, historians of Reconstruction-era Southern urbanism, architectural and industrial historians documenting the rebuilding of Richmond after the Civil War, scholars of the Virginia springs and resort tradition, and collectors of antiquarian American cartography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.5\" x 11\". 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The index sheet lists every street and every named business, church, school, hotel and factory with the sheet it appears on, and the key map places the coloured sheet grid over the whole city on the Elizabeth River, with Berkley and Portsmouth across the water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eighty-seven numbered sheets work block by block through the wharves and warehouses of the water front, the business district along Main, Granby and Church streets, the railroad yards, the residential streets out to Brambleton, and the piers and trestle tracks at Pinner's Point; eight skeleton sheets record the block outlines of the densest wards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: the title page, the index sheet, the key map, all eighty-seven numbered map sheets and the eight skeleton sheets. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Norfolk address back to 1898.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e100 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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It covers the whole city of 70,000 people, from the shipbuilding and dry-dock yard and the Chesapeake \u0026amp; Ohio coal piers on the James River, through the stores, hotels and theatres of Washington Avenue and the Army warehouses of the Port of Embarkation, to the residential avenues out to Salters Creek, the East End in Elizabeth City County and Camp Stuart on Hampton Roads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe forty-two numbered sheets, opening with the key map, work block by block from the stores, banks, hotels and theatres along Washington Avenue, Twenty-fifth Street, Huntington Avenue, West Avenue and Jefferson Avenue - the County Court House and Jail, the City Hall, the Post Office, the U. S. Custom House, the Academy of Music, the Olympic, Stuart and Ivy Avenue theatres, the Imperial and Palace picture shows, the Elks', Masonic and Moose halls, the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A. Hostess House, the American Red Cross headquarters, the War Camp Community Club, the Hotel Central, Grafton, Huntington and Newport, the Commercial, Exchange, Lexington, Richmond, Royal, Senate and Victoria hotels and the Sailors' Home - through the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company's dry docks, piers and foundries, the Chesapeake and Ohio piers, elevators, freight houses, car-float ferry docks and yards, the Newport News and Pocahontas coal company's car shops, the Hampton Roads and Marine repair yards, the Southern Shipyard, the Old Dominion Land Company's Pier A and steamship freight house, the Chesapeake Ferry waiting room, the Atlantic Aeronautical Station, the Port of Embarkation headquarters, barracks, Quartermaster warehouses and Government Warehouse No. 25, the gas plant and light and water works, the Distilled Ice and Virginia Food Products plants, the Water Front and Newport News lumber yards and planing mills, the Armour, Swift and Morris meat houses and the Standard Oil and Texas Company depots, to the Riverside, St. Francis, Elizabeth Buxton and Whittaker Memorial hospitals, the Walter Reed High School, the John Marshall, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Booker T. 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