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THBPeltzer's Atlas of Chicago in Four Volumes
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- Lot Description
Peltzer, Otto. Peltzer's Atlas of the City of Chicago embracing all the subdivided territory within the legal boundaries of the City and Containing all recorded Maps and Showing all streets and Alleys opened by the Authorities...
Compiled from the Cook County Records, Original Maps, Documents and other most reliable sources. Drawn to a scale of 100 feet to an inch [8 sheets to the Government Section]
By G.R. Hoffman, Draughtsman under the Board of Public Works and Edwd. A. Fox, Civil Engineer and Surveyor
Revised, corrected and with Marginal Notes by Otto Peltzer, in charge of the Map Department of the Board of Public Works.
Chicago: Published by Peltzer, Fox & Hoffman, 1872. Double elephant folio (24 x 33.5 in.). Three volumes have leather boards, black with red corners and spine, gilt lettering on front; marbled endpapers. The fourth volume has lighter boards and is bound in coarse cloth, plain endpapers. The first three volumes have had covers made in this same coarse cloth with Peltzer's Atlas of Chicago printed on them in black. The third volume has a pocket created on the inside front board using this cloth and marbled paper, presumably for a map or index now missing.
The first three volumes have pages that are glued back-to-back, with a map on each side. Volume 1 has maps 1-82, with page 26 being numbered, but blank. Volume 2 has an index and maps 83-108, with the last being linen backed. Volume 3 has maps 109-135, with the last here also linen backed.
The fourth volume has lighter paper, not glued back-to-back, no title page. The maps present are: Index map (linen backed), 1-18, 20, 24-25, 27-29, 31, 35-44, 46, 49, 51-52, 54, 57-60, 62-69, 74-75, 79-80, 82-83, 86-88, 91-92, 100. It is unclear how this volume relates to the other three, since there seems to be no correspondence between Map 1 in this volume and Map 1 in the other, etc.
Otto Peltzer (1836-1919) was born in Prussia in 1836, immigrating with his parents in 1849 to a farm in Wisconsin. Shortly after he moved to Chicago, Peltzer took a position in the recorder's office. In 1853 he began working as a draughtsman. For a short time he pursued a career in the law, but abandoned that direction. He returned to his earlier position, where he became chief draughtsman of the board of public works. In that position, he was responsible for compiling city atlases.
In 1871, the Great Fire destroyed all records of the city and county. Peltzer quickly assembled the maps from his own personal collection and published the Atlas of Chicago in 1872. In 1872 he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives where he introduced legislation for compulsory education, a state board of health, and licensing for surveyors, doctors and pharmacists. After one term, he returned to the Board of Public Works. He resigned a few years later to open his own title and abstract office.
In his spare time, Peltzer wrote, mostly for the stage. One of his dramas was produced by Florenz Ziegfeld (Sr.) at the Chicago Musical College. Peltzer died in Oak Park in 1919.
Boards mostly separated, spines gone. Cloth worn, as is leather (where it exists). Typical scuffing and chipping of page edges, mostly on frontmatter and rear free pages. For the most part, the maps are fine with just a bit of handling wear.Condition
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