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Subject:        Re: Sanborn Insurance Maps
Date:   Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:28:11 -0700
From:   Matt Fox <[log in to unmask]>
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I'm not an expert by any means, but I've researched Sanborns at dozens
of different repositories over the years.  I've never seen them folded
and placed in a folder.  The older ones (< ~ 1980s??) are usually
color with pasted revisions, and bound into a large hard covered
atlas, separated into different Volumes.  The newer ones are usually
black & white and bound into a smaller hard covered atlas with blue
plastic cover.  At least that's been my experience.

In your case, I suspect someone cut out the maps from the hard cover
atlas, folded them up, and stuck them into folders so they'd be easier
to store.

Matt Fox




On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Maps-L Moderator <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
>  Subject:        Sanborn Insurance Maps
>  Date:   Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:03:42 -0600 (MDT)
>  From:   Laurence Creider <[log in to unmask]>
>  To:     [log in to unmask]
>
>
>  Our Library has a number of Sanborn insurance maps for Las Cruces, N.M.
>  and one for Alamogordo, N.M.  Each set of maps is colored and on sheets 65
>  x 55 cm. which are folded (sometimes backed by a support) and then placed
>  in a dark brown folder.  There is a statement to the effect that these are
>  copies made for such and such an real estate company.  Each set has a
>  title on the first map, a very brief title on subsequent maps which are on
>  numbered sheets, and an index, which is frequently pasted on the first
>  map.
>
>  There are a couple of questions I have about cataloging these items which
>  I haven't been able to resolve by looking at how the multitudes of
>  libraries have handled their copies of Sanborn maps.
>
>  1) Are these copies published items?  They seem to be on-demand copies,
>  but I hesitate to consider them as manuscripts.  The company obviously
>  made many of these copies, can this be considered publishing?
>
>  2) Were the maps issued in these folders or were they added by the company
>  holding them.
>
>  3) These maps seem to be variously treated as atlases (1 atlas (9 maps),
>  several maps or 1 map on x sheets.  From the fact that the title appears
>  on one sheet only, I would tend to opt for the last choice.
>
>  4) Has anyone made an added entry for the company for whom the set was
>  made?  As a special collections cataloger, I am tempted to do so for these
>  local firms.
>
>  Thanks in advance for any suggestions, including things I may have left
>  out.
>
>  Larry Creider
>
>  Laurence S. Creider
>  Head, General Cataloging Unit &
>  Special Collections Librarian
>  New Mexico State University
>  Las Cruces, NM  88003
>  Work: 505-646-4707, 505-646-7227
>  Fax: 505-646-7477
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