Subject: Lesser Antilles, Guadeloupe
Period: 1897 (dated)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
21 x 24 inches
53.3 x 61 cm
This large fire insurance plan is presented on a scale of 120 feet to one inch. It has a key at the right explaining which buildings are properly constructed, and which are "poor and probably uninsurable." Hospitals, streets, stores, schools, banks, post offices and memorials are named. Dated March 1897 by Chas. E. Goad Civil Engineer Montreal & Toronto, Canada. A most uncommon issue.
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Condition: B
The top edge has some chipping , not affecting the map. No flaws on this example save a four inch tear from left side professionally closed on verso, otherwise very good.