Facsimile of the four Sanborn fire-insurance surveys of Ishpeming, Michigan, made between 1884 and 1897, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copies. Beyond the town they map the iron mines and their locations - the Barnum and Lake Superior locations, the Lake, Salisbury and Barnum mines and the shores of Lake Angeline - and in 1884, 1888 and 1892 the Deer Lake Company's blast furnace and mills on Deer Lake and the Carp River; within it they cover the business blocks of Main Street and Cleveland Avenue, the railroad yards, and the residential streets out to Lake Bancroft.

In June 1884 eight sheets show the Lake Superior Iron Mining Co.'s Ishpeming Mine, the Iron Cliffs Co.'s New Barnum and Old Barnum mines, the Cleveland, Lake Angeline and York mining companies, the Excelsior Furnace, the Ishpeming Foundry and Iron Bay M'f'g Co.'s foundry, Palmer's planing mill, the C. & N. W. R. R. and M. & W. R. R. depots, the Mining Hospital, the American, Commercial, Nelson, St. James and Ishpeming hotels, Gylling's Hall, the Public School and the Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian and Episcopal churches. The 1888 edition adds the D. S. S. & A. R. R. depot, the Detroit Mine, the Opera House, Jenks Block, Johnson & Stark's planing mill and the city water works on Lake Angeline. By October 1892 fifteen sheets reach the Cleveland Iron Mining Co.'s Lake and Salisbury mines, the East New York Iron Company, the New York Iron Mine, the Winthrop Iron Company, the Pittsburg & Lake Angeline Iron Co., Barnum's Mine Hospital, City Hall, the Ishpeming Gas Works, the Electric Light Station, the National Bank, Braastad's elevator and St. Joseph's Catholic Church, and in September 1897 twenty sheets add W. T. Cole's boiler shop, the Ishpeming Steam Laundry, the High School, Ridge St. and Winthrop schools, Calvary Baptist Church, the L. S. & I. R. R. and the drained bed of Lake Angeline.

Between 1884 and 1897 the Sanborn map companies of New York surveyed Ishpeming four times for the fire-insurance trade, every edition at fifty feet to the inch. Every building is shown to scale and color-coded for construction (yellow for frame, pink for brick, blue for stone), with heights, uses, mine shafts and engine houses, railroad tracks, hydrants and water pipes all marked. Each edition opens with a key map of the town and an index of named businesses, mines, churches, schools and hotels, and a divider page introduces each edition.

This Tangletown Press edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: all fifty-two sheets of the four editions of 1884, 1888, 1892 and 1897, each edition with its key map and index, with the iron mines around the town and the Deer Lake works, each edition introduced by a divider page. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Ishpeming address back to 1884-1897.

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

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