{"product_id":"1904-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-of-mobile-alabama","title":"1904 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Mobile, Alabama","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe complete 1904 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Mobile, Alabama, reprinted in full color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1904 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Mobile for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the Gulf port on the Mobile River at fifty 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 sheet lists every street and every named business, church, school, hotel, mill and compress with the sheet it appears on, and the key map places the colored sheet grid over the whole city, with notes on the water works and the fire department.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ninety-two numbered sheets work block by block from the stores, banks, hotels and cotton offices along Dauphin, Royal, Conti and Water Streets and Bienville Square, through the wharves, warehouses, cotton compresses and elevators of the river front, the passenger and freight depots and yards of the Louisville \u0026amp; Nashville and the Mobile \u0026amp; Ohio, the saw mills and lumber yards along the river and Three Mile Creek, to the residential streets out along Government Street, Spring Hill Avenue and the streets of the old town. Eight skeleton sheets record the block outlines of the densest blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: the title page, the index sheet, the key map, all ninety-two numbered map sheets and the eight skeleton sheets. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Mobile address back to 1904.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e104 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":49872513925275,"sku":"Publishing 2026 - Ingram DS \/ 820158583727","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_b2d10079-d91a-4262-8a60-05782d5d2c8b.jpg?v=1792532918","url":"https:\/\/tangletownpress.com\/products\/1904-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-of-mobile-alabama","provider":"Tangletown Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}