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Subject:        1,676 New Maps and Images Added to Rumsey Online Collection
Date:   Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:45:43 -0700
From:   David Rumsey <[log in to unmask]>
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1,676 New Maps and Images Added to Rumsey Online Collection, Including
the 1905 Sanborn Atlas of San Francisco, June 26, 2011

1,676 new maps and images have been added to the David Rumsey Map
Collection, bringing the online collection to 27,800 maps and images.
Included in this addition are 666 images of Pocket Maps, a rare edition
of Sanborn's 1905 Atlas of San Francisco from the S.F. Public Library
which shows the city just before the earthquake and fire of 1906 - the
atlas pages show burns from the fire. Also the 1889 Cram Standard
American Atlas and the 1901 Cram American Railway Atlas.  325 more
images from the Karte des Deuchen Reiches are added and the large
composite image is increased to 501 maps (the next update will finish it
at 674 maps). The entire list of new maps and atlases may be explored at

http://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2011/6/26/june-26-2011-1-676-new-maps-added

The 1905 Sanborn Atlas of San Francisco is also the subject of a blog post:

A rare 6 volume 1905 San Francisco Sanborn Insurance Atlas showing the
city as it was just months before the great earthquake and fire of 1906
has been added to the map site in collaboration with the San Francisco
Public Library which owns the atlas and keeps it in its San Francisco
History Center at the main library branch. The atlas was published in
1899/1900 and was updated manually several times by the publisher, the
Sanborn-Perris Map Company of New York, with the last updates done in
the fall of 1905. The 6 atlas volumes show the city in great detail,
with building shape, height, construction materials, and many other
details typical of fire insurance atlases of the period. Apparently the
volumes were never updated after the earthquake and fire (except for a
few small 1908 updates) because the atlas was damaged in the fire with
some loss to the edges (as can be seen from the map images)…

The complete Sanborn San Francisco Atlas blog post can be read here:

http://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2011/6/27/pre-earthquake-san-francisco-1905-sanborn-insurance-atlas

David Rumsey Map Collection

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