Civil War map Sketch of the entrenched lines in the immediate front of Petersburg. 1864-5 Surveyed under the direction of N. Michler, Major of Engrs., Bvt. Col. U.S.A. Prepared expressly for the guests of Jarratt's Hotel, Petersburg, Va. WHOLESALE package of 25 posters.

WHOLESALE package of 25 museum quality reproductions of an historic map of the Civil War Map Collection from the Library of Congress. Authentic map that was hand drawn during or soon after the Civil War depicting important historical events and battles. Emerald Honeybee offers only the BEST in quality. Our Posters are printed by a Professional Graphics Company using a MIMAKI Eco-Solvent Printer and archival inks. Which means your poster is UV protected and will not fade over time. Paper used is a heavy weight, satin finish photo paper. Description of this Poster is as follows: Sketch of the entrenched lines in the immediate front of Petersburg. 1864-5 Surveyed under the direction of N. Michler, Major of Engrs., Bvt. Col. U.S.A. Prepared expressly for the guests of Jarratt's Hotel, Petersburg, Va. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are the detailed battle maps made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss for Generals Lee and Jackson, General Sherman's Southern military campaigns, and maps taken from diaries, scrapbooks, and manuscripts.

John B. Boddie, one of the most successful business men in Birmingham, is a native of Dayton, Marengo County, Alabama, where he was born in October, 1849. His father's ancestors were of French extraction. His mother, who was a granddaughter of General Winchester, of Revolutionary fame, and a sister of tlie gallant General E. W. Rucker, of the Confederate Army, is of Scotch-Irish descent. The parents were natives of Alabama and Tennessee respectively, and were married in the latter State in 1846, but immediately removed to Marengo County, Alabama. In 1859 his father's death occurred, during a typhoid-fever epidemic, leaving the mother with four children. John B. was the eldest of the number, and received a good education, first as a pupil of the celebrated Henry Tutwiler, and from
thence he went to the University of Mississippi. Before graduation he was called, when only seventeen years of age, from his studies to assume the management of an estate valued at over $350,000. The legislature relieved him from the disabilities of non-age to allow him to assume his responsible trust. These large interests he successfully controlled until the disastrous year of 1873, and from that period until 1883 continued the uneven struggle.

He purchased his first of piece property in Jefferson County, in 1883, at Wood's Station, which he sold within seventeen days at a profit of $1,000, his entire capital being less than one thousand dollars of borrowed money.

He intuitively recognized the magnificent natural beauty of the Southern Highlands for suburban homes, and purchased twenty acres, composing the most desirable locations, and began developing the property, which is now finely improved and dotted with some of the finest suburban residences in the State. He still owns considerable lands in that portion of the city, which is being improved rapidly.

His speculative operations in the business portion of the city have been marvelous, and the execution of them rapid and masterly. A few of them are cited to preserve for posterity some idea of what one man accomplished in the central business portion of Birmingham. His active mind saw at a glance that Morris Avenue would become, by reason of its freight facilities, the center of the trade, and he accordingly purchased from the Elyton Land Company 975 feet between the railroad and the avenue, paying $30 per front foot. In eight months he had sold all at a profit of over $125,000.

His next venture was on First Avenue, between 21st and 25th streets, purchasing 650 feet from the Elyton Land Company at $75 per front foot, and choice corner lots from diflerent individuals. He then conceived the idea of erecting a magnificent hotel to improve the property, to cost $220,000. After months of planning the desired location was secured by the purchase of the site of Dr. Caldwell's handsome private residence at a cost of $20,000, the hotel to bear the latter's name, and the Elyton Land Company to take $50,000 of the stock, and the balance divided between Mr. Boddie and seven other prominent capitalists. This bold stroke of policy cleared for our subject $80,000 on the sale of his lots, and secured the erection of the finest hotel in Alabama, in which he is a large stockholder.

Desiring a permanent investment, he decided upon the southwest corner of First Avenue and 20th street. After several months of negotiations, with an eye single to
becoming the sole possessor of this most eligible business lot, he became the owner of the entire lot, 100x100 feet, paying for it $77,500. This lot is now conceded to be worth $125,000. Mr. Boddie intends this lot to be a permanent investment, and will erect upon it a handsome business block, consisting of five stories, with elevators and all of the superior improvements of the age, to live as an enduring monument of his success for many years. These are but fair samples of his many successful operations. He also owns much valuable real estate, and is interested in various enterprises, among which we name: Sloss Steel & Iron Company, North Birmingham Land Company, North Highlands Company, Coalburg Coal & Coke Company, Central Land & Improvement Company, in most of which he is a director. Mr. Boddie has done more to advertise Birmingham and the advantages of Alabama as a safe investment for capital than any other one man. Recognizing the force of placing information abroad, and keeping it before the people, he has been liberal in the extreme sense of that word.

The "New South," one of the finest illustrated monthly magazines in the South, and one that is doing more to attract capital to the South than any other publication in the State, owes to Mr. Boddie the fact that it is on a substantial basis today, and without his timely assistance it would probably have suffered the fate of many other such periodicals.

Since coming to Birmingham he has paid off a large indebtedness contracted prior to coming here, has aided

On August 1st 1750, the first bank to be opened in Bristol was in a house at the corner of Broad Street and John Street. There was no other Banking House out of London except for one at Derby, so the event caused quite a stir.

A journal of the time said that 'the instant deposit of gold was great', and we must suppose that the Bank Hotel or Tavern was named to commemorate the occasion. Two years later another bank was opened and a third in 1769. The first bank moved in 1776 to specially built premises at the corner of Clare and Corn Streets and that once-new bank acquired the title, the Old Bank.

The Bank Tavern, however, has been firmly fixed in the corner of John Street since the 1750’s. The upper part of the building is of mid-eighteenth century style coeval with the time of the opening of the first bank and it matches the rest of the houses in this narrow John Street.

The lower portion shows the introduction of pilasters framing the doorway and windows typical of the work prevailing during the nineteenth century when this lower portion was redesigned. In 1972 new windows were opened up on top of the inn but this was done so discreetly that the original outline of the inn has scarcely been disturbed. In 1891 the mortgage conveyance said, 'the Premises occupy a very good position for general purposes and have a fair light so that in case the Tavern failed the Property would be available for counting houses or offices or for the extension of some adjoining property.' Happily, the Tavern did not fail but offices and extensions have taken the place of some of its neighbouring houses.

The whole precinct around the Bank is a good example of urban planning, for the new National Westminster Court development has made good use of the road lines and street furniture at this corner. It is entirely fitting that the hanging sign should uncompromisingly show gold bullion and that the old Bank Tavern should still retain its connection with the city’s financial world here in this banking complex.

The original founders of the Bank were members of well-known Bristol families; Isaac Elton, Harford Lloyd, Thomas Knox, Matthew Hall and William Miller. Miller was a grocer who lived just around the corner in a lovely Jacobean house, 4 Tailor’s Court, now called Court House.

His father had built the house in 1692 when it had a small garden and outhouses behind it. The splendid shell-hood with his initials J.F.M. and date is the earliest example of such a stone hood in the city. The finest example is probably the one opposite at the Merchant Tailors Guild Hall which incorporates their coat of arms.

On a fine day office workers and bank employees drink their lunch-hour refreshment outside the Bank Tavern and then this corner of old Bristol comes alive as it did over two hundred years ago when the Bank was first opened.

WHOLESALE package of 25 museum quality poster prints by Emerald Honeybee. From the collection of nearly 6,000 photochrom (photochrome) prints from the Detroit Publishing Company collection of the Library of Congress. Emerald Honeybee offers only the BEST in quality. Our Posters are printed by a Professional Graphics Company using a MIMAKI Eco-Solvent Printer and archival inks. (Which means your poster is UV protected and will not fade over time). Paper used is a heavy weight, satin finish photo paper. When ordering a photochrom reprint it is important to understand what you will receive. While the image is in color and is quite beautiful, it is not comparable in tone, image quality, and resolution to modern color photography. Photochroms were made by adding colors to a black and white image by using multiple colored lithographic stones. The color range is limited in each print to a handful of actual colors, but the color depth appears deeper in many prints than it actually is. The original final photochrom print was created using different color impressions from multiple lithographic stones. Description of this Poster is as follows: Jungfrau and Jungfraublick Hotel, Bernese Hotel, Switzerland wall sized poster (photochrom) photochrome measured in inches. WHOLESALE package of 25 posters.