This Exile Books edition is a complete, full-color facsimile of Insurance Maps of Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, published by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. of New York in 1900. The entire atlas is reproduced in color: all 99 numbered street maps surveyed at 50 feet to an inch, the city-wide key map, the surveyors' report on the city's waterworks and fire department, the full street index, and a block index that locates any of Butte's nearly one thousand numbered blocks by sheet.

At the turn of the century Butte was the copper capital of the world — a mining city of 75,000 spread across the richest hill on earth — and the Sanborn surveyors mapped all of it: the uptown blocks along Broadway, Main, Park, and Granite Streets, the mine yards and hoisting works threaded through the neighborhoods (the index names dozens, from the Anaconda Copper Mining Company's works to the Gray Rock and the Wake-up Jim), the smelters and reduction works along Silver Bow Creek, and the outlying communities of Walkerville, Centerville, Meaderville, and South Butte. Every building appears with its footprint, construction, story height, and address — the Grand Opera House, St. James Hospital, the breweries, the boarding houses and miners' cottages, the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific rail yards, even the race track — with the great mining companies of the Boston & Montana and Butte & Boston era fixed in place at their peak.

For anyone researching a Butte 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 Butte, Montana, and Western mining history.

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

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