1898 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Salt Lake City, Utah, Volume 2: The Complete Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlas of Salt Lake City, Utah, Volume Two

In 1898 the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. of New York surveyed Salt Lake City for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the whole city at fifty feet to the inch in two volumes. Every building is shown to scale and colour-coded for construction, height and use, with street names, house numbers, hydrants, water mains and steam boilers noted. Volume Two opens on its own key map and then works block by block through the city east of Main Street from South Temple (Brigham Street) to Ninth South, the Avenues climbing toward the City Cemetery, Capitol Hill, Washington Square and the Joint City and County Building, the University and Fort Douglas districts, and the blocks west of Temple Square toward the railroad depots.

This Exile Books edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of Insurance Maps of Salt Lake City, Utah, Volume Two (Sanborn-Perris Map Co. Limited, New York, 1898), reproduced complete and in full colour: the title page, the street and specials index, the key map and all ninety numbered sheets, 101 to 190. Printed on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, it is a working atlas of Salt Lake City at the close of the nineteenth century for genealogists, house historians, architectural historians, preservationists and anyone tracing the growth of the Utah capital. Volume One (sheets 1 to 91) is published separately.

The Sanborn Map Company of New York, trading in the 1890s as the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. Limited, was the leading publisher of fire insurance maps in the United States from 1867 to the mid twentieth century. Its surveyors mapped some twelve thousand American towns and cities at large scale, recording every building's footprint, construction, height and use for the insurance trade. The atlases are now a primary source for urban, architectural and family history.