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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Queens, Queens County, New York. 1925 - 1943: Vol. 22, 1934. 101 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound. Other places as they appear on original: Flushing Heights, Hillcrest-jamaica, Creedmoor, Bellerose, Parts of Bellerose Terrace, Floral Park, Jamaica Estates, Park Center in Nassau County.- Date: 1934
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Tupper Lake, Franklin County, New York. Jan 1934. 10 sheet(s).- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Madison, Rockingham County, North Carolina. Jan 1925 - Oct 1934. 5 sheet(s). 509. Other places as they appear on original: Mayodan.
- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. 1934 - 1937 Vol. 1, 1934. 86 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Bound.
- Date: 1934
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. 1934 - 1937 Vol. 2, 1934. 95 sheet(s). Key map to edition. Map of congested district. Bound.- Date: 1934
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Newberg, Yamhill County, Oregon. Jan 1929 - Jan 1934. 25 sheet(s). 508. Other places as they appear on original: Springbrook.- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bridgeville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Jan 1931. 18 sheet(s). Other places as they appear on original: Mayview, parts of Scott, Collier, Lower Saint Clair, South Fayette Townships.
- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Clover, York County, South Carolina. Jan 1934. 5 sheet(s).- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Clover, York County, South Carolina. Jan 1934. 5 sheet(s). 502.
- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Fountain Inn, Greenville And Laurens County, South Carolina. Jan 1934. 4 sheet(s).- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ninety Six, Greenwood County, South Carolina. Jan 1934. 4 sheet(s).- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ninety Six, Greenwood County, South Carolina. Jan 1934. 4 sheet(s). 505.
- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas. Jan 1934. 7 sheet(s).- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Hebbronville, Jim Hogg County, Texas. Jan 1934. 3 sheet(s).- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Barboursville, Cabell County, West Virginia. Jan 1934. 3 sheet(s).- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Milton, Cabell County, West Virginia. Jan 1934. 3 sheet(s).- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Williamstown, Wood County, West Virginia. Jan 1934. 3 sheet(s).- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Arcadia, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. Jan 1934. 4 sheet(s).- Date: 1934-01
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Kiel, Manitowoc and Calumet Counties, Wisconsin. Jan 1925 - Jun 1934. 8 sheet(s). 507.
- Date: 1934-01
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CollectionSanborn Maps The Sanborn Maps Collection Advanced Search provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the collections of the Geography and Map Division. The online checklist is based upon the Library's 1981 publication Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress and will be continually updated to reflect new acquisitions.- Date: 1867
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ArticleIntroduction to the Collection The Sanborn map collection consists of a uniform series of large-scale maps, dating from 1867 to the present and depicting the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of some twelve thousand cities and towns in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.- Date: 1867
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ArticleSanborn Samplers To illustrate the value of fire insurance maps for historical research, maps of a number of locations around the country are reproduced here and presented with a brief history of the site and some explanation of significant features as portrayed on the maps. These locations were selected because of their historical importance, their popularity as places to visit, or because they represent important types…- Date: 1867
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ArticleSanborn Time Series Fire insurance maps are valuable to much historic research because they often provide evidence of change over time. Specific changes in an individual site such as when a building was expanded or torn down, can often be dated within a reasonably accurate time frame, depending on how many different map editions for that city are available. Change can also be examined in a larger…- Date: 1867