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CollectionSanborn Maps The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the collections of the Geography and Map Division. The online checklist is based upon the Library's 1981 publication Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress and will be continually updated to reflect new acquisitions. Fire Insurance Maps in the...
- Date: 1867
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ArticleIntroduction to the Collection The Sanborn map collection consists of a uniform series of large-scale maps, dating from 1867 to the present and depicting the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of some twelve thousand cities and towns in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
- Date: 1867
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ArticleSanborn Samplers To illustrate the value of fire insurance maps for historical research, maps of a number of locations around the country are reproduced here and presented with a brief history of the site and some explanation of significant features as portrayed on the maps. These locations were selected because of their historical importance, their popularity as places to visit, or because they represent important types...
- Date: 1867
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ArticleSanborn Time Series Fire insurance maps are valuable to much historic research because they often provide evidence of change over time. Specific changes in an individual site such as when a building was expanded or torn down, can often be dated within a reasonably accurate time frame, depending on how many different map editions for that city are available. Change can also be examined in a larger...
- Date: 1867
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Jan 1894. 1 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1894-01-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. May 1898. 1 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1898-05-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama. Jan 1885. 3 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1885-01-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama. Mar 1888. 7 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1888-03-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama. Jul 1890. 13 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1890-07-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama. Feb 1895. 15 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1895-02-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Dec 1884. 1 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1884-12-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Jan 1888. 1 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1888-01-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Apr 1894. 2 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1894-04-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Dec 1899. 2 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1899-12-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Attalla, Etowah County, Alabama. Jan 1892. 3 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1892-01-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Attalla, Etowah County, Alabama. Feb 1897. 4 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1897-02-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama. Apr 1888. 3 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1888-04-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama. Jun 1890. 8 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1890-06-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama. Apr 1895. 11 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1895-04-00
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama. Jul 1899. 13 Sheet(s).
- Date: 1899-07-00
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