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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. 1927. 1 sheet(s). 112 X 77 cm. Other places as they appear on original: Central Business District.- Date: 1963-11
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cohasset, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Sep 1935 - rev Apr 1963. 16 sheet(s).- Date: 1963
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bay City, Bay County, Michigan. 1963, vol. 2. 81 sheet(s).- Date: 1963
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bay City, Bay County, Michigan. Vol. 2, 1963. 81 sheet(s). Binder. Other places as they appear on original: Parts of Brooks and Kawkawlin Village. Acquired after 1981..- Date: 1963
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Duluth, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. Vol. 3, 1963. 80 sheet(s).- Date: 1963
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana. Jul 1963, Vol. 1a. 45 sheet(s).
- Date: 1963
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. 1917, Republished 1958, Aug 1963. 70 sheet(s).
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Nov 1963. 107 sheet(s).- Date: 1963
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. November 1963. 105 sheet(s). In box. Acquired after 1981..
- Date: 1963-11
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island. Vol. 1A, 1958 - Nov 1963. 6 sheet(s). 35 X 29 cm. Bound. Other places as they appear on original: Unincorporated areas known as Anthony, Arctic, Arctic Village, Arkwright, Centreville, Clyde, Crompton, Fiskeville, Harris, Hope, Lippitt, Natick, Phenix, Quidnick, Riverpoint, Washington, Westscott, the Towns of Coventry, Scutiate, West Warwick.- Date: 1963-11
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island. Vol. 1A, November 1963. 43 sheet(s). Binder. Other places as they appear on original: Unincorporated areas known as Anthony, Artic, Artic Village, Arkwright, Centreville, Clyde, Crompton, Fiskeville, Harris, Hope, Lippitt, Natick, Phenix, Quidnick, Riverpoint, Washington, Wescott, towns of Coventry, Scituate, and West Warwick. Acquired after 1981..
- Date: 1963-11
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. 1914 vol 2 - republished 1957 - rev. Jun 1963. 79 sheet(s).- Date: 1963
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. 1914 vol 2a - republished 1957 - rev. Jul 1963. 66 sheet(s).- Date: 1963
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. 1914 vol 3 - republished 1957 - rev. Jul 1963. 90 sheet(s).- Date: 1963
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. 1914 vol 4 - republished 1957 - rev. Aug 1963. 79 sheet(s).- Date: 1963
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. 1914 vol 5 - republished 1957 - rev. Jul 1963. 106 sheet(s).- Date: 1963
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. 1914 vol 6 - republished 1957 - rev. Aug 1963. 78 sheet(s).- Date: 1963
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MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. 1914 vol 8 - republished 1957 - rev. Sep 1963. 52 sheet(s).- Date: 1963
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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