-------- Original Message -------- 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. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 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]>