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Staple-bound paperback booklet: H 17.1cm x L 10.9cm. 16 pages plus covers and large foldout b/w map. Pink paper covers mildly soiled; slender wear along spine fold with short tear at heel; varied curling/creasing at top fore-edge corners of covers and interior leaves. Some soiling and foxing to interior pages. Binding staples rusted but firm. Text comprised of small prefatory essay followed by sections titled as: "Montgomery;" "Health, Climate and Sanitation;" "Manufacturing Enterprises;" "Agriculture;" "Transportation Lines;" "Wholesale Trade;" "Water Supply and Fire Department;" "Schools;" "Finance;" "Population and Prospects;" "Fire Alarm Boxes;" and concluding list "City Government 1899" (Executive Department, Aldermen, and Alderman-at-Large." Large single-sided foldout map "City of Montgomery, Alabama, 1899" with map at center and multiple advertisements at borders; several short tears at folds. OCLC only locates copies of this original 1899 edition at five member institutions (there was a facsimile edition in published in the 1970s/1980s). {AL-Shelf#2|CVA-01223}.