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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\u003eVolume One opens on an 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 Milwaukee River, the business blocks of Grand Avenue, Wisconsin Street and East Water Street, the breweries, tanneries, foundries and grain elevators, the hotels, theatres, churches and public buildings, and the residential streets from the Third Ward north to the lake bluff. It records the city at the height of its German-speaking industrial prosperity, in the year its population passed 250,000.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition reproduces the volume complete and in full colour: the title page, the index, the key map and all 103 numbered sheets. 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It covers the whole city of 24,000 people on both banks of the Fox River, from the stores, hotels and Court House of Washington and Main Streets, through the railroad shops, breweries, paper mills, lumber yards and fish docks, to the residential streets of Navarino, Astor and Fort Howard and out to the County Infirmary and the State Reformatory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eighty-three numbered sheets work block by block from the stores, banks, hotels and theatres along Washington Street, Main Street, Cherry Street, Pine Street and Broadway - the County Court House and Jail, the City Hall, the Post Office, the Carnegie Library, the Chapman, Duchateau and Parmentier blocks, the Bijou, Minahan and Green Bay theatres, Turner Hall, Ansgar Hall, the Elks' Club House, the Y. M. C. 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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":49872527556763,"sku":"Publishing 2026 - Ingram DS \/ 820183099872","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_02027a6b-b12b-4229-8e48-ac9b68ed8bdd.jpg?v=1792533103"},{"product_id":"1912-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-of-wausau-wisconsin","title":"1912 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Wausau, Wisconsin","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of the 1912 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Wausau, Wisconsin, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copy. It covers the whole city on both banks of the Wisconsin River, from the business blocks of Third Street and the saw mills and lumber yards on McIndoe Island to the residential streets of the east side and the West Side, and out to the mill villages of Schofield, Kelley, Rothschild, Weston and Brokaw with the Marathon and Wausau paper mills.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thirty-nine numbered sheets work block by block from the stores, banks and halls along Third Street and Scott, Jefferson, Washington, Forest and Grand Avenue - the Marathon County Court House and Jail, the new and old City Halls, the Post Office, the Public Library, the Armory, the fire stations, the Y. M. C. A. Building, the Masonic Temple, the Elks' Lodge Hall, the Grand Opera House, and the Bellis, Northern, Island, Riverside, Washington, Park, City and Commercial hotels, the Olympia, Sloan and Central houses - through the Chicago and North Western and Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul depots, the Wausau Street Railway car barns and power plant, the city water works and Wausau Gas Company, the Alexander, Barker and Stewart, B. Heinemann, F. Schubring and J. Mortenson lumber yards and mills, the Wausau Box and Lumber Company, the Wisconsin Box Company, Goodwillie Brothers' box factory, the Curtis and Yale Company factories, J. M. Kuebler's sash, door and blind factory, the Underwood Veneer Company, the Union Tanning Company, the Government Experimental Pulp Mill, the Northern Milling Company and McEachron and Company's flour mills, the Mathie and G. Ruder breweries, the Marathon Granite Company and Meisner's granite works, D. S. Murray's saw-mill machinery works, the Wausau Iron Works, Foundry and Machine Shop, Canning, Fixture and Furniture, Fluff Rug, Novelty, Quartz and Sand Paper companies, out to the Brooks and Ross Lumber Company's saw and planing mill at Schofield, J. Manser's saw and planing mills at Kelley on the Eau Claire River, the Wilson-Hurd Company at Weston, the Marathon Paper Mill Company at Rothschild and the Wausau Paper Mill Company at Brokaw, to St. Mary's Hospital, the Marathon County Hospital and Home for Chronic Insane, Alms House and Agricultural School, the High School, the Lincoln, Longfellow, Humboldt, Franklin, Grant, Irving, Washington and Schofield public schools, St. James, St. Mary's German, St. Michael's Polish and St. Stephen's churches and schools, St. John's Episcopal, the Triune German Church and School, Emmanuel Norwegian, Evangelical Lutheran Zion, St. Paul's, First Methodist, First Presbyterian, Swedish Lutheran and Universalist churches, and the residential streets of the east side, the West Side and Brokaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1912 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Wausau for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the city and the mill villages of Schofield, Kelley, Rothschild, Weston and Brokaw at fifty feet to the inch, and the Brooks and Ross mill and lumber yard at Schofield at one hundred 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: the combined title and index sheet and all thirty-nine numbered map sheets, 1 to 39, sheet 1 being the key map with the fire and water report. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Wausau address back to 1912.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e42 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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For anyone tracing a Dane County family, this is the record that puts an ancestor on a specific piece of ground: Albion, Berry, Black Earth, Blooming Grove, Blue Mounds, Bristol, Burke, Christiana, Cottage Grove, Cross Plains, Dane, Deerfield, Dunkirk, Dunn, Fitchburg, Madison, Mazomanie, Medina, Middleton, Montrose, Oregon, Perry, Pleasant Springs, Primrose, Roxbury, Rutland, Spring Dale, Springfield, Sun Prairie, Vermont, Verona, Vienna, Westport, Windsor, and York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe village and city plats add lot-by-lot detail: Madison in two large plates for the east and west parts of the city, plus Stoughton, Sun Prairie, Oregon, Belleville, Cambridge, Mount Horeb, Mazomanie, Middleton, Waunakee, McFarland, Marshall, De Forest, Deerfield, Cross Plains, Black Earth, Verona, Brooklyn, Mount Vernon, Rockdale, Paoli and Paoli Station, Pine Bluff, Pheasant Branch, Monona, Morrison, Deansville, Vilas, Riley, Foxville, London, Quarry Town, Merrill Park, Prospect Hill, Cottage Park, and the Oak Lawn and Pleasant View additions to South Madison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso reproduced in full: the Dane County outline map, the state map of Wisconsin, the government survey diagrams and explanations, and the eleven-page patrons' directory listing the county residents who subscribed to the atlas — often the quickest route from a surname to a section number.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause a plat book records who owned what, rather than who lived where, it answers a question no census or city directory can: it is an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Wisconsin history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e76 pages. 8.5\" x 11.25\". 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This edition reprints the atlas's complete map section: the title page and contents, every general map, every county map, every city and village plat, and every view and portrait plate, from the frontispiece of the State Capitol through the portrait plate facing page 123. The letterpress text that filled the second half of the original volume — the History of Wisconsin, the county histories, the biographical sketches, and the directories — is not included; this is the atlas of maps, complete and unabridged as maps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe general maps open the volume: the hemispheres, a new railroad map of the United States, the census population and vitality maps of 1870, T. C. Chamberlin's geological map of Wisconsin, the climatological map, the agricultural production maps, the judicial, congressional, senatorial and assembly district maps, and the great double-page map of the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the counties, sixty in all, each on its own plate with towns, sections, railroads, lakes and streams: Milwaukee, Dane, Rock, Grant, Racine and Kenosha, Walworth, Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee, Dodge, Jefferson, Green, Columbia, Sauk, Iowa, La Fayette, Crawford, Richland, Vernon, La Crosse, Trempealeau, Buffalo, Jackson, Monroe, Juneau and Adams, Wood and Portage, Waushara, Waupaca, Marquette, Green Lake, Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Calumet, Outagamie, Brown, Kewaunee, Oconto, Door, Shawano, Marathon, Lincoln, Taylor, Clark, Chippewa, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce, Dunn, St. Croix, Polk, Barron, Ashland and Bayfield, Douglas and Burnett.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterleaved with them are the city and village plats — Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Janesville, Beloit, Oshkosh, La Crosse, Green Bay and Fort Howard, Appleton, Sheboygan, Eau Claire, Prairie du Chien, Watertown, Ripon, Hudson, Chippewa Falls and dozens more — with the engraved views and portraits: the State Capitol, the state normal schools and the University of Wisconsin, the National Soldiers' Home, Nashotah House, the governors of Wisconsin, and page after page of farms, mills, hotels and business blocks drawn from life in 1877 and 1878.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone tracing a Wisconsin family, a farm, or a vanished village, these plates put the whole state on the table at once — an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Wisconsin history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e156 pages. 8.5\" x 11.25\". 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Belden \u0026amp; Co. of the Lakeside Building, Chicago, in 1876 — reproduced here in full color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe township maps carry the name of every landowner lettered across their acreage, with the roads, school houses, churches, cemeteries and mills of the centennial year: Milwaukee, Granville, Wauwatosa, Franklin, Greenfield, Oak Creek and Lake, together with the sectional map of the county and a large plate of the city of Milwaukee. Village plats follow for Wauwatosa, Bay View, Hale's Corners, Franklin, Oak Creek and the Soldiers Home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat sets a Belden atlas apart is everything around the maps. Roughly eighty engraved views show the county building by building — Edward Allis \u0026amp; Co., Frederick Miller's brewery, Falk's Bavaria Brewery, Milwaukee Gardens, Greenfield Park, Goldsmith \u0026amp; Co., the Cathedral of St. John, the Church of Jesus and Mary, Holy Assumption Church, Pio Nono College, and farm after farm with the owner named beneath. Joseph Juneau, who founded the place, has his page too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe county history is printed twice, once in English and once in German — a decision that says more about Milwaukee in 1876 than any statistic, and one that makes this atlas unusually useful to anyone working a German-American line. 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