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Subject:        RE: Giant Sanborn map collection missing?
Date:   Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:32:21 -0400
From:   Seldin, Daniel T. <[log in to unmask]>
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I have a vague recollection that the Sanborn Maps from Census in Jeffersonville, Indiana may have gone to the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.


Daniel T. Seldin
Map Cataloger
Technical Service Dept.
Herman B Wells Library E350
Indiana University
1320 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN  47405-3907
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Subject: Giant Sanborn map collection missing?

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Subject:        Giant Sanborn map collection missing?
Date:   Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:44:31 GMT
From:   Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
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Can anyone confirm the following information?

A correspondent reports that staff at the US Census Bureau in Jeffersonville, Indiana told him their large collection (>500,000 sheets) of Sanborn Map Company fire insurance maps was transferred about ten years ago to the National Archives.  The Archives reports no knowledge of them.

Could this massive transfer have occurred without mention on MAPS-L or MapHist?


Philip Hoehn
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