User Submitted Questions and Comments

Great map--wish there were older ones as well--it would be interesting to see how the city grew.

My family was one of the earlier settlers of pittsfeild Twp, Carlos Avery and his house that he built known as the "Old Brick" is still standing.

i live in the old hf whiting house ijust googled it i cant believe its on here

What a wonderful find and quite a rare one at that as very few of the illustrations found within these old atlases were colored. Of the 20,000 to 30,000 within our collection, I would probably say that less than 50 were were produced with color. As with the maps, these were hand colored at the publishers. FYI: If you decide to order a map or gift item made with this image we will remove the brown marks left over from the old tape as a matter of course.

what would this thing be worth? if it was an original print?

I have seen Birds Eye Views listed for anywhere from $500 to $10,000 depending on many factors. Early panoramic maps of large metropolitan areas certainly attract a lot of interest. You might be able to find more info about values one of the links listed on www.MapHistory.info

What a fantastic find! Granville is my great great grandfather

Congratulations! Have you found your g-g-grandfathers name on a map within that atlas yet? You may find it of interest to know that the map publishers sometime drew little houses next to a persons name on the accompanying atlas for those atlas subscribers who paid to have a sketch drawn of their farmstead. This allowed their door-to-door salesmen to identify who their best customers were the next time they published an atlas for that county. In addition to his name on a map, you may also find a biography or a mention of him under the Histories or Directories tabs for that atlas. Good luck with the research.

How was Joseph Culver a part ofthis mapping in 1875 do you have a story to document the mapping.? Please send it to me as I am dooongi genealogy on Joseph CulverRebecca Root down through the Banks. Thanks.

i have one of these maps that has been handed down from my granpa to me .. and i was wondering how to tell if its one of the origonals ?? it does have a little water stain on it, but its spent all of its life in a glassed frame and hung on the wall.

A good site for reference on this subject is the folowing: http://maphistory.info/fakesintro.html#diffs.

Cool found my relatives

Congratulations on finding your relatives! Did you get a chance to browse the other tabs (directories, histories, and illustrations) for this atlas? If not, you can often find some very interesting information in them. The link below will show you the entire atlas. http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/Illustrations/US/9302/Cass+County+1906/ Click the Illustrations tab and look through the images to see if there is a portrait of one of your relatives. Within that particular atlas, there are a couple hundred portraits to look at. Good luck.

Where could a guy find more of historic info like this?thank you

Could you please give me more information on what this page is? Is it an advertisement for a hotel? Thank you, Peter Schaf peterschaf@orange.fr

Peter, This is an advertisement/illustration for the Valley House Hotel run by Peter Schaf that appeared within a 1882 historic property atlas of Franklin County, Indiana. You can view all the images (maps, directories, histories, and illustrations) within this atlas here: http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/11196/Franklin+County+1882/ Any chance you found a relative?