{"product_id":"1884-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-of-detroit-michigan-volume-1","title":"1884 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Detroit, Michigan, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1884 the Sanborn Map \u0026amp; Publishing Co. of New York surveyed Detroit for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the city at fifty feet to the inch across large double-page sheets. 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 a key map of the whole city, then works block by block through the downtown along Woodward, Jefferson, Griswold and Shelby, the warehouses, docks and shipyards of the Detroit River front, the Campus Martius and the City Hall, the churches and public buildings, and the car works, foundries, lumber yards and railroad grounds beyond. Thirty-seven numbered sheets, each a two-page spread in this edition, record the city as it stood in the year Detroit was becoming the industrial capital of the Great Lakes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition reproduces the volume complete and in full colour: the key map and all thirty-seven double-page sheets. It is a working reference for historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Detroit address back to the 1880s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e78 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":49872491544731,"sku":"Publishing 2026 - Ingram DS \/ 820134803536","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_cc961406-3fd4-43f7-b384-aa5b43f957bf.jpg?v=1792532694","url":"https:\/\/tangletownpress.com\/products\/1884-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-of-detroit-michigan-volume-1","provider":"Tangletown Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}