Kansas City fire insurance map from 1895 is really awesome (photo)

Typography nerds, this Flickr photo set of Sanborn-Perris Map Company fire insurance maps, 1890-1910, is pretty sweet (huge hat tip to Kansas city blogger favorite The816 via Sean Berger‘s Twitter).

Can’t really argue with The816’s assessment: “Today this cover would be a stock shot of The

Scout with a Copperplate headline.” They really are beautiful, though. If you’ve got time to kill — and who are we kidding; if you’re here, you do — they’re really worth looking through. For even more, go to BibliOdyssey.