This Exile Books edition is a complete, full-color facsimile of Insurance Maps of Beaumont, Texas, published by the Sanborn Map Company of New York in 1911. The entire atlas is reproduced in color: all 103 numbered street maps surveyed at 50 feet to an inch, plus two supplemental sheets, the city-wide key map, the congested-district overview, and the full street and building index.

Beaumont in 1911 was a city of 30,000 riding the oil boom that began at Spindletop a decade earlier. The Sanborn surveyors recorded it building by building — footprint, construction (pink for brick, yellow for frame), story height, and street address — from the courthouse blocks around Pearl, Orleans, and Bowie Streets to the great rail yards of the Southern Pacific, the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, and the Frisco system. The index locates hundreds of named landmarks of working Beaumont: the Gulf Pipe Line Company, the Oil Well Supply Company, the McFaddin-Wiess-Kyle rice mill, Kirby Lumber Company yards, the Pabst beer depot, the Kyle and Lyric theatres, Hotel Dieu hospital, and the wharves and sawmills along the Neches River. The key map even records the city's vital statistics — its waterworks, its fire department of a chief and 31 paid men, and its 15½ miles of paved streets.

For anyone researching a Beaumont property, the Sanborn atlas is the definitive record of what stood on a lot a century ago. An essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Texas and Gulf Coast history.

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

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