1946 Southern Map Company City Plan or Map of Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta-southernmapco-1946$450.00
Title
The Southern Map Company's Map of the City of Atlanta and Adjacent Territory Showing System of House Numbering.
1946 (dated) 33.75 x 33.25 in (85.725 x 84.455 cm) 1 : 24000
1946 (dated) 33.75 x 33.25 in (85.725 x 84.455 cm) 1 : 24000
Description
This is a 1946 Southern Map Company city plan or map of Atlanta, Georgia and the immediate vicinity. Coverage extends from Oakdale Estates and Capital City Country Club to Lakewood and from Pine Acres to Columbia Seminary in Decatur. Streets are illustrated, neighborhoods and subdivisions identified, and Atlanta city wards defined in green (which by extension means the city limits are colored green as well). Emory University, Agnes Scott College, Grant Park, Clark University, Fort McPherson, and Atlanta University rank among the specific sites named. An alphabetical street index occupies the upper right corner and the right side of the sheet. Three insets appear in the upper left detailing College Park, Hapeville, and East Point.
Publication History and Census
This map was drawn by I.U. Kauffman and Sons in 1942, updated in 1946 by J.W. Burpitt, and published by the Southern Map Company. The Southern Map Company published editions of their map of Atlanta beginning as early as the late 1920s and continued through at least the late 1940s. An OCLC reference exists for the 1942 edition of this map and lists five cataloged examples, at Syracuse University, the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, the University of Chicago, and the University of Florida.CartographerS
Ira Ulysses Kauffman (May 18, 1881 - December 27, 1937) was an American civil engineer. Born in Massalon, Ohio, Kauffman moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1903, where he worked with his brother Orrin Frederick Kauffman (1876 - 1930) in the engineering firm O.F. Kauffman and Brother. Orrin suffered health and personal problem starting in 1929, leading to his suicide in 1930. Likely he retired from the business sometime in 1929, as in that year, Ira opened his own engineering firm with his son in 1929 called I.U. Kauffman and Son, which would later become I.U. Kauffman and Sons, and later the Southern Map Company. At the time of his death, Kauffman worked as chief engineer of the Georgia division of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Over the course of his career, Kauffman helped lay out the Druid Hills, Ansley Park, and Avondale Estates developments, as well as the Camp Gordon and Fort Benning army posts. Kauffman died unexpectedly of a cerebral hemorrhage. One of Kauffman's sons, William R. Kauffman (April 19, 1911 - December 19, 1978), served in the U.S. Navy Seabees in the South Pacific for thirty months during World War II. After being discharged from the Navy, William Kauffman founded an engineering firm in Atlanta called Kauffman and Harman. More by this mapmaker...
James William Burpitt (June 12, 1900 - October 24, 1982) was an American civil engineer and Army officer. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Burpitt attended high school in Atlanta before attending the Georgia School of Technology (Georgia Tech) and graduated in 1922. While at Georgia Tech, Burpitt was part of the R.O.T.C. program and was commissioned as an officer even before graduation. In February 1942, when Burpitt filled out his Selective Service Registration Card, he was working for himself as a civil engineer. By 1944, he served in the Army Corps of Engineers and had reached the rank of captain. After the war, Burpitt stayed in the Army and helped build military cemeteries in Paris, France. At one point, he was assigned to (worked for?) the American Battle Monuments Commission. Burpitt retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel. After retirement, he split his time between Atlanta and Nokomis, Florida. He married Pauline Landon Burpitt on June 20, 1925, with whom he had two daughters. Learn More...
Condition
Very good. Light wear along original fold lines. Closed margin tears professionally repaired on verso. Slight loss at a few fold intersections. Attached to original paper binder.
References
OCLC 692495403.