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The report and index sheet lists every street and every named business, church, school, hotel and mill with the sheet it appears on, and the key map places the coloured sheet grid over the whole city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume One's forty double-page sheets work block by block through the wharves, docks and railroad yards along the water front, the business district along Pacific Avenue and the numbered streets, and the residential blocks climbing the hill behind. Volume Two, published separately, covers sheets 51 to 91.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of Volume One: the report and index sheet, the key map and all forty double-page map sheets, each laid across a two-page spread. A companion to the Seattle 1893 volumes. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Tacoma address back to 1896.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e84 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted to order and shipped directly to you — please allow up to 7 business days before shipment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872513466523,"sku":"Publishing 2026 - Ingram DS \/ 820158583715","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_cfa09919-88c4-49b5-81db-4387f8a912f2.jpg?v=1792532910"},{"product_id":"1902-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-of-spokane-washington-volume-1","title":"1902 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Spokane, Washington, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first volume of the 1902 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Spokane, Washington, reprinted complete and in full color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1902 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Spokane for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the city at fifty feet to the inch in two bound volumes. 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. Two index sheets list every street and every named business, church, school, hotel and mill with the sheet it appears on, and the key map places the coloured sheet grid of both volumes over the whole city on both banks of the Spokane River.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume One's one hundred and thirteen numbered sheets work block by block through the business district rebuilt after the great fire of 1889, along Riverside, Sprague and First avenues, the mills and railroad yards along the river and the falls, and the residential streets beyond. Volume Two, published separately, completes the survey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of Volume One: the title page, the two index sheets, the key map and all one hundred and thirteen numbered map sheets. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Spokane address back to 1902.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e118 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted to order and shipped directly to you — please allow up to 7 business days before shipment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872513499291,"sku":"Publishing 2026 - Ingram DS \/ 820158583716","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_8f1fe70a-bb2d-479e-b8c2-649f3e1099bc.jpg?v=1792532911"},{"product_id":"1893-seattle-washington-sanborn-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-volume-two","title":"1893 Seattle, Washington Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas, Volume Two","description":"\u003cp\u003eInsurance Maps of Seattle, Washington, published by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Limited, of 115 Broadway, New York, in 1893 — reproduced here as a complete color facsimile of Volume Two, with all forty-one sheets, numbered 51 through 91, together with the index map, the key, and the street and business indexes. Each of the large original sheets is reproduced across two pages, at a scale of fifty feet to the inch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere Volume One mapped the business district rebuilding after the fire of 1889, Volume Two covers the north end of the city and the mill towns beyond it. Every structure is drawn in plan and color-coded by construction — brick, frame, iron, stone front, fireproof — with the number of stories, roof material, window and door openings, iron shutters, fire walls, chimneys, steam boilers, and the name of the business inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sheets run north from Belltown and the Elliott Bay wharves, past the packing houses and squatters' cabins at Virginia and Stewart Streets, over Denny Hill and Queen Anne to Smith's Cove; around both shores of Lake Union and along the line of the projected ship canal; out to Brooklyn and Latona and the Lake Washington shore below Lake View Cemetery and City Park; and on to Fremont on sheet 88 and Ballard on sheets 89 to 91, then a shingle-and-lumber town in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe index names hundreds of individual buildings and businesses — the Cudahy Packing Co. pork house, Johnstone's Fish Packing, the New York Paint Co. factory, the Queen Anne pumping station, the Madison Street and Front Street cable railway power houses, the North Pacific Brewery, Stimson Mill Co., Salmon Bay Lumber Co. and the West Coast Iron Works at Ballard, the Fremont Milling Co., Mercer Public School, and Sacred Heart Catholic Church among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone tracing a specific address, a vanished neighborhood, or a Seattle business, these sheets record the city in a detail no other source preserves — an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Seattle history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e86 pages. 8.5\" x 11.25\". 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Each of the large original sheets is reproduced across two pages, at a scale of fifty feet to the inch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour years earlier, on June 6, 1889, fire destroyed the entire business portion of Seattle inside the fire limits. Sanborn's surveyors returned to a city of 60,000 rebuilding in brick and stone, and mapped it building by building. Every structure is drawn in plan and color-coded by construction — brick, frame, iron, stone front, fireproof — with the number of stories, roof material, window and door openings, iron shutters, fire walls, chimneys, steam boilers, and the name of the business inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume One covers the waterfront and the working city: the wharves, coal bunkers, and cold storage along Elliott Bay, from Schwabacher Bros. \u0026amp; Co. to the Seattle Terminal Railway and Elevator Co.'s grain elevator; Front, Second, and Commercial Streets through Pioneer Square and Yesler Way; the tide flats and the iron works south of town; Broadway and Rainier and Lake Washington Avenues; and outlying sheets for South Seattle, Georgetown, Van Asselt, West Seattle, and Port Blakely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe front matter is reproduced in full — the report on water supply, the fire department of 72 men and 32 horses, the fire limits, a street-by-street index, and an index of \"specials\" naming hundreds of individual buildings and businesses, from Denny Clay Co. and Providence Hospital to the Rainier Club and the Opera House and Turn Halle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone tracing a specific address, a vanished neighborhood, or a Seattle business, these sheets record the city in a detail no other source preserves — an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Seattle history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e86 pages. 8.5\" x 11.25\". 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