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Subject: Newibrary of Congress website New online edition of "Fire
Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress"
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:11:56 -0400
From: Edward James Redmond <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maphist <[log in to unmask]>, Maps-l <[log in to unmask]>
The Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, is pleased to
announce the addition of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online
Checklist, an online version of the popular but out-of-print Library
publication entitled "Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress:
Plans of North American Cities and Towns produced by the Sanborn Map
Company (Library of Congress, 1981). The new website can be accessed
directly via http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/sanborn/
The printed volume, and now the online version, describe the nearly
700,000 sheet collection of maps published by the Sanborn Map Company
from 1867 to the 1960’s in the Library's collection, the single
largest and most comprehensive collection of maps published by the
Sanborn Map Company. These maps were acquired by the Library as a
result of copyright deposits, government agency transfers, and gifts.
For those who may be unaware, fire insurance maps and plans show
detailed, accurate and large scale building “footprints” of
individual structures and are often the earliest large scale urban
mapping available for small cities.
In addition to a searchable database which lists all editions and
number of sheets for each city/town/village represented in the
collection, the online checklist will be continually updated to reflect
new acquisitions. Most importantly, the online checklist contains links
to existing downloadable digital images from the collection and will be
continually updated as new digital images are added to the online
checklist.
The web site includes essays on the history of large scale mapping
related to fire insurance efforts and examples of how large scale maps
can be used by historians, geographers, and researchers in virtually any
discipline.
For additional information contact Ed Redmond, Library of Congress,
Geography and Map Division at [log in to unmask]
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