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| Sanborn maps have a certain elegance, no? |
I have a lot of links for you today, with just a little background, and a little diatribe.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps were drawn up for many cities and towns in the late 1800's and early to mid-1900's. They are wonderful sources of insight and detail on how and where your ancestors lived and worked.
The maps list almost all buildings, streets, places of work, parks, schools, many residences, and town/city layouts. Maps from different years show changing street names, boundaries, and land use. You even get to find out if a factory had sprinkler systems, elevators, and was made of brick, wood, or stone...the maps are that detailed.
A fair number of Sanborn maps have been digitized, and are available in free online collections. That's the good. The collections are sometimes infuriatingly difficult to browse, with very large maps being made available a small window at a time, with limited panning and zoom tools; that's the bad. The maps are never ugly, however...quite the opposite (I just wanted to throw ugly in the title). So without further ado, here are some links to online, free collections of Sanborn insurance maps (and maps from a few other sources, as well).
- Alabama
- California (San Francisco)
- California (Santa Cruz County)
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii (Dakin Insurance Maps)
- Illinois (Aurora)
- Indiana (Indianapolis)
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Kentucky (along with ME and NY)
- Louisiana (New Orleans)
- Maine (along with NY and KY)
- Massachusetts (Boston)
- Missouri
- Montana (use the username and password provided under "Sanborn" heading)
- Nevada
- New Jersey (Princeton)
- New York (along with KY and ME)
- New York City
- North Carolina
- Ohio (Cincinnati)
- Oregon (Oregon City)
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Utah (search on 'Sanborn Maps')
- Virginia (Charlottesville)
- Assorted maps from the Library of Congress
(including the OK Corral in Tombstone, AZ)
There are many more such maps in hardcopy and microfilm collections; check with your community library or town/county historical society for local resources.
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Don't forget to also check for your family history at NewspaperArchive and Newspapers.com
. These are subscription databases, but they are among the most powerful research tools available for looking into family roots. And visit the main page of Free Genealogy Tools for more, umm, free genealogical tools.
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The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County is digitizing it's Sanborn Map collection:
http://virtuallibrary.cincinnatilibrary.org/VirtualLibrary/vl_Maps.aspx
Virtual Library...thanks! Added 'em to the list.
Great list...thanks!
There are some Illinois Sanborn maps here, and Montana ones here.
Hawaii has the Dakin Fire Insurance Maps here.
Kentucky also has this.
Miriam...you are GOOD! Thanks a lot, and happy new year.
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Thanks, Robin...link has been added.
Thank you for the link – am adding it to my other favourites from the Library of Congress American Memory Map as well as University of Texas Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collections. They are the jewels of the treasure trove, and I cannot emphasize how important these maps and archives are for the future generation. Record keeping should be made a duty for everyone, particularly at times like ours where we travel more extensively either for leisure or for the purpose of moving out of our homes to settling down in foreign lands.
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