----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hi, Alice, This discussion of the Sanborn plans is very interesting to me at this time, as I am trying to write an introduction to a new to our collection. No libraries in this area has Biblion. Could you please provide a more detailed reference so I could try to get a copy of this article? Many thanks. I wonder if anyone has managed to get at the Map Collection in California State University, Northridge yet. I believe that is the largest collection of Sanborn plans in the western US. Weren't a lot of the pre-1906 plans lost in the San Francisco quake? This Northridge quake managed to take all Richter's papers with it! They keep telling us we are due for a 8.5 anytime in the next 100 years! Frances Woodward Special Collections & University Archives University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada tel: (604) 822-2521 fax: (604) 822-9587 e-mail: [log in to unmask]