1906 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Atlantic City, New Jersey Facsimile

In 1906 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Atlantic City for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the resort at fifty feet to the inch along the whole of Absecon Island, from the Inlet down through Ventnor and South Atlantic City to Longport. 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. The atlas opens on two index sheets of every street, hotel and named building, then a key map of the island, and works block by block along the Boardwalk and its great hotels and piers, the cottages, boarding houses and bath houses of the avenues named for the states, the railroad terminals, the ice plants, gas works and electric-light stations, and the wharves and yacht clubs on the bay side. Twenty-four skeleton sheets bound with the volume record the outlying blocks in outline. This Exile Books edition reproduces the volume complete and in full colour: the two index sheets, the key map and all seventy numbered sheets with their skeleton supplements. It is a working reference for historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing an Atlantic City address back to the Boardwalk's golden age. 98 pages. 8.5" x 11". Full color. Paperback. Printed to order and shipped directly to you ? please allow up to 7 business days before shipment. Satisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back.…