3 messages.---------Johnnie ----------------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:11:17 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) >From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: What exactly is a Sanborn map? "Sanborn map" refers to a fire insurance plan made by the Sanborn Map Company. Other companies (e.g., Goad for Canada and elsewhere) produced similar plans which are detailed maps of showing footprints and construction details of buildings. A good introduction as well as other information may be found at the University of California, Berkeley's Earth Sciences & Map Library's web page on fire insurance maps: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu//EART/fire.html > --- Begin Forwarded Message --- > >Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 06:10:51 -0400 > >From: [log in to unmask] > >Subject: What exactly is a Sanborn map? > > > Hello, > > I suscribed to this list about one month ago and I read some e-messages > with mention of 'sanborn map'; even one refered to 'fire map'. Nothing in > current English dictionaries, neither in map library (cartotheque) here, a > canadian french-speaking university. Is it a kind of map (about fires?) or > a trade mark of map-maker? I seems so obvious for some US colleagues of the > list, that maybe there is available documentation, books or websites about > sanborn maps. > > Thank You for instructive details. > > > Yaives Ferland > > Land Law Lab > Centre for Research in Geomatics > Universite Laval, Quebec > > --- End Forwarded Message --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Philip Hoehn [log in to unmask] Map Bibliographer 650.725.1103 Branner Earth Sciences Library FAX 650.725.2534 & Map Collections Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2210 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: [log in to unmask] >Subject: RE: What exactly is a Sanborn map? <fwd> (fwd) Let us not forget that other firms were also involved in the making of the fire insurance maps and atlases. Sanborn & Goad may have been the giants, but the other firms deserve study as well. J. B. Post --------------------------------------------------------------------- >Subject: RE: What exactly is a Sanborn map? <fwd> There's a Sanborn Company website at <http://www.sanbornmap.com/>. It isn't very informative. The Sanborn Co. has been bought by EDR company. The Sanborn Company produced detailed atlases of American cities for fire insurance companies. The maps show a diagram of every structure standing at the time, with details about construction, use, number of stories, and so on. They are invaluable for urban historians. The Library of Congress has the largest known collection of Sanborn atlases, and produced a book inventorying their collection: Library of Congress Fire insurance maps in the Library of Congress: A checklist compiled by the Reference and Bibliography Section Washington, DC : Library of Congress, 1981 Hope this helps. -=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=- Cynthia Van Ness, M.L.S. | Co-moderator, Buffalo NY USA genealogy page: [log in to unmask] | http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~roots If information were power, librarians would rule the world. (C. Stoll)