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Subject:        Re: MAPS-L: HOLC residential security Maps
Date:   Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:43:33 -0500
From:   Dennis McClendon <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



This question was recently discussed on the H-Urban listserv.



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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 <[log in to unmask]>