1898 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Joliet, Illinois / Color Facsimile

Facsimile of the 1898 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Joliet, Illinois, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copy. It covers the whole city of 36,000 people on both banks of the Des Plaines River and the Illinois and Michigan Canal, from the stores, banks, hotels and theatres around the Will County Court House, through the Illinois Steel Company's works, the wire, tin-plate and stove works, the stone quarries and the Illinois State Penitentiary, to the residential streets of the east and west sides, South Park and the American Steel and Wire Company's plant at Rockdale.

The seventy-eight numbered sheets work block by block from the stores, banks, hotels and halls along Chicago Street, Jefferson Street, Ottawa Street, Van Buren Street, Cass Street and Bluff Street - the Will County Court House and Jail, the Joliet Theatre, the Opera House, Auditorium, Metropolitan, Barber, Young and Munroe blocks, Werner Hall, the Turn Halle, Robeson Hall, the Y. M. C. A. building, the News, Times, Republican and Record printing offices, the National, Munroe, Central, Brunswick, Bissell, Belvidere, St. Nicholas and Palmer House hotels - through the Chicago and Alton, Rock Island, Santa Fe, Michigan Central and Elgin, Joliet and Eastern depots, freight houses, round houses and shops, the Illinois Steel Company's works, the American Steel and Wire Company's plants including the Rockdale Plant, the Consolidated Barb Wire, Van Fleet Wire Specialty and Laidlaw Bale-Tie works, the Great Western Tin Plate Company, the Fox Solid Pressed Steel Company, the Joliet Stove Works, the Joliet Bridge and Iron Company, the Phoenix Horse Shoe Company, the Frankfort Chair Company, the Joliet chemical, gas-light, electric and paper works, the Oliver oat-meal mills, the City and West Side flour mills, the Midland and Speer elevators, the Eagle, Sehring and Porter breweries, the Selz, Schwab shoe factory, the Porter, Globe, Western and Pioneer stone quarries and the Bowen and Rowell…