1889 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Portland, Oregon, Volume 2

In 1889 the Sanborn Map & Publishing Co. of New York surveyed Portland 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.

Volume Two covers the east bank of the Willamette: the then-separate cities of East Portland and Albina. It opens on a report and index of every street and named building, then a key map, and works block by block through the ferry landings, wharves and railroad yards along the river, the mills, warehouses and car shops, the churches and schools, and the residential streets and additions spreading east and north toward the Columbia.

This edition reproduces the volume complete and in full colour: the report and index sheet, the key map and all twenty-three double-page sheets, each laid out as a two-page spread. It is a working reference for historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing an East Portland or Albina address back to the 1880s.

50 pages. 8.5" x 11". Full color. Paperback.

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