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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: 1930s redlining maps for American cities
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:47:39 -0800
From: Larry Cruse <[log in to unmask]>
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1. HOLC Confidential National Security (Redlining) Map of the U.S.
http://www.sdsc.edu/NARA/HOHOLC/usa
2. San Diego redlining
(requires ECW plugin)
http://sdtj.regionalworkbench.org/UCSD/RegionalPlanningChronologies.htm
3. recent redlining mapping
http://www.public-gis.org/maps/maps1.html
Larry Cruse
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Subject: redlining maps
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 18:06:55 -0500
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Thought this series of emails might be of interest to mapsters. See below.
Alice C. Hudson
Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788
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Open 1-7:30 Tu; 1-6 Wed-Sat. Closed Sun, Mon.
See our exhibition, Treasured Maps, in Room 316,
the Edna Barnes Salomon Room,
from 10-7:30 Tu; 11-7:30 Wed; 10-6 Thur-Sat; 1-5 Sun.
http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html
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From: Ray Bromley <[log in to unmask]>
Many of them are in the National Archives and Reconds Administration
(NARA), Map Division, at College Park, Maryland.
http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/college-park/index.html
http://www.archives.gov/research/formats/cartographic.html
Part of the collection, at least, is electronically indexed:
ARC Identifier: 643498
Title: Real Property City Survey Maps, 1934 - 1942
Creator: Department of Commerce.~. Federal National Mortgage
Association. (02/24/1942 - 09/07/1950) (Most Recent)
Federal Housing Administration. (1934 - 07/01/1939) (Predecessor)
Type of Archival Materials:
Maps and Charts
Textual Records
Level of Description:
Series from Record Group 31: Records of the Federal Housing
Administration, 1930 - 1965
Location: Cartographic and Architectural Records LICON, Special
Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-C), National Archives at
College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001
PHONE: 301-837-3200, FAX: 301-837-3622
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Inclusive Dates: 1934 - 1942
Part of: Record Group 31: Records of the Federal Housing
Administration, 1930 - 1965
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by state and thereunder
alphabetically by city name.
Scope & Content Note:
This series consists of manuscript, annotated, and published maps
showing the results of the real property surveys conducted in about
260 cities throughout the United States. Most of the maps are large
scale and show by blocks certain aspects of housing such as physical
condition of structures, average rental, occupancy by owner or
tenant, occupancy by rate, income of occupant, age of structure,
duration of occupancy, number of persons per room, extent of
mortgages, and sanitary facilities. Other maps show special
characteristics of cities, such as spatial patterns of city growth,
settled areas, growth of population, transportation facilities,
neighborhood conditions, land use, industrial areas, and business
areas. Some manuscript and published maps show areas around selected
cities considered financially safe for underwriting mortgages. The
maps prepared after 1939 also show major defense industrial areas and
the commuting distances for workers residing in nearby areas. There
are also a few manuals describing the methods for conducting real-
property surveys and the preparation of real-property maps.
Access Restrictions:
Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Variant Control Number(s):
Inventory Identifier: 450
Entry 450 is found in "The Guide to Cartographic Records in the
National Archives."
Local Identifier: NWCS-C31CITYSURVEYS
Copy 1
Copy Status: Preservation-Reproduction-Reference
Extent: 3,855 maps and charts
Count: 66 10-drawer Hamilton (TH)
Storage Facility: National Archives at College Park - Archives II
(College Park, MD)
Happy hunting,
Ray Bromley
University at Albany - SUNY
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From: David Schuyler <[log in to unmask]>
The redlining maps are in Record Group 195, Records of the Housing
and Home Finance Board, National Archives, Washington, DC. I
published the 1933 map of Lancaster, Pennsylvania in _A City
Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania_ (2002).
David Schuyler
Franklin & Marshall College
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From: Alan Bliss <[log in to unmask]>
In 2002, Amy Hillier at the University of Pennsylvania digitized the
HOLC's loan security maps for Philadelphia using images of the
originals, scanned and migrated into an ArcView GIS. She discusses
the project in "Who Received the Loans? Home Owners' Loan Corporation
Lending and Discrimination in the 1930s," _Journal of Planning
History_ 2:1, February, 2003: p. 3-24, as well as in "Redlining and
the Home Owners' Loan Corporation," _Journal of Urban History_ 29:4
(May, 2003): p. 394-420.
As to the originals, Kenneth Jackson, in his 1985 _Crabgrass
Frontier_, cites the HOLC City Survey Files, Record Group 195,
National Archives and Records Administration. Later writers, such as
Buzz Bissinger (_A Prayer for the City_, also on Philadelphia) report
having viewed the originals there. You have apparently seen Thomas
Hanchett's helpful color reproduction of the map for Charlotte, N.C.
in his 1998 _Sorting Out the New South City_.
It would be useful to urbanists everywhere if the various city maps
became accessible on the web.
Alan Bliss
University of Florida
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From: Brian Harrington <[log in to unmask]>
Amy E. Hillier's "Residential Security Maps and Neighborhood
Appraisals: The Home Owners' Loan Corporation and the Case of
Philadelphia", _Social Science History_, 29.2 (2005), 207-233, online
at
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_science_history/v029/29.2hillier.html
has a good discussion of the maps. And her website at
http://cml.upenn.edu/redlining/HOLC_intro.html has very nice color
images of the maps for Philadelphia.
The National Archives catalog record for the Federal Home Loan Bank
Board is at
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/195.html. I
would be a little concerned that the HOLC series description only
mentions 13 maps. Unfortunately, the preliminary inventory, which
should have much more detail, isn't online.
Finally, the UC Santa Barbara library has a copy of the map for San Diego.
Brian Harrington
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