3 messages.---------Johnnie
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>Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:11:17 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
>From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: What exactly is a Sanborn map?
"Sanborn map" refers to a fire insurance plan made by the
Sanborn Map Company. Other companies (e.g., Goad for
Canada and elsewhere) produced similar plans which are
detailed maps of showing footprints and construction
details of buildings. A good introduction as well as other
information may be found at the University of California,
Berkeley's Earth Sciences & Map Library's web page on fire
insurance maps:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu//EART/fire.html
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> >Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 06:10:51 -0400
> >From: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: What exactly is a Sanborn map?
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> Hello,
>
> I suscribed to this list about one month ago and I read
some e-messages > with mention of 'sanborn map'; even one
refered to 'fire map'. Nothing in > current English
dictionaries, neither in map library (cartotheque) here, a
> canadian french-speaking university. Is it a kind of map
(about fires?) or > a trade mark of map-maker? I seems so
obvious for some US colleagues of the > list, that maybe
there is available documentation, books or websites about >
sanborn maps. > > Thank You for instructive details. > > >
Yaives Ferland > > Land Law Lab > Centre for Research in
Geomatics > Universite Laval, Quebec > > --- End Forwarded
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Philip Hoehn
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Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2210
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>Subject: RE: What exactly is a Sanborn map? <fwd> (fwd)
Let us not forget that other firms were also involved in the making of the
fire insurance maps and atlases. Sanborn & Goad may have been the giants, but
the other firms deserve study as well.
J. B. Post
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>Subject: RE: What exactly is a Sanborn map? <fwd>
There's a Sanborn Company website at <http://www.sanbornmap.com/>.
It isn't very informative. The Sanborn Co. has been bought by EDR
company.
The Sanborn Company produced detailed atlases of American cities for fire
insurance companies. The maps show a diagram of every structure standing
at the time, with details about construction, use, number of stories, and
so on. They are invaluable for urban historians.
The Library of Congress has the largest known collection of Sanborn
atlases, and produced a book inventorying their collection:
Library of Congress
Fire insurance maps in the Library of Congress: A checklist
compiled by the Reference and Bibliography Section
Washington, DC : Library of Congress, 1981
Hope this helps.
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