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Fire Maps

September 8, 2007 by Administrator 5 Comments


The Robinson’s Atlas of the City of Chicago was one of several surveys performed after the Great Fire of 1871. The purpose of these books was to provide outlines of all buildings as well as a color coded system to identify the building’s building materials in case of fire for insurance purposes. This brilliantly designed illustration is from the Title Page of Volume Five. The books were published in 1886.

Terry Gregory
Chicagologist
Robinson


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