Paris 1900

This series of lithographed maps from a Paris atlas shows the arrondissements of Paris in detailed, hand-colored city plans. Each map is dedicated to a single arrondissement and is further divided into four numbered quarters, clearly delineated by different colored areas. A legend in the bottom left identifies the names of the quarters and provides the scale, which varies between approximately 1:7,000 and 1:14,000 depending on the sheet.

The plans precisely record the dense Parisian street network with street names, public buildings (churches, schools, barracks, ministries, hospitals), squares, bridges, train stations, and prominent structures such as the Louvre, the Palais de Justice, Notre Dame Cathedral, Les Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe, the Opéra Garnier, and the Panthéon. The Seine with its quays and the islands Île de la Cité and Île Saint-Louis, as well as the first lines of the Paris Métro "Chemin de fer Métropolitain," are also marked – an indication of the period around 1900, shortly after the opening of the first subway lines for the World's Fair.

Arrondissements 11 to 20 follow.