GEOSTAT: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Bibliography


	Home \| 1920 Maps \| Microfilm \| Symbols \| History \| Bibliography Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Bibliography and Other Web Sites Fortune. "Map Monopoly." Feb. 1937. 41-42. Keister, Kim. "Charts of Change." Historic Preservation, vol. 45 no. 3. May/June, 1993. Ristow, Walter W. Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress. Washington, D. C: Library of Congress, 1981. Ristow, Walter W. "United States Fire Insurance and Underwriters Maps, 1852-1968." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. vol. 25 July 1968. Sanborn Map Company. Description and Utilization of the Sanborn Map. New York: 1953. Sanborn Map Company. Manual for the Exculsive Use and Guidance of Employees of the Sanborn Map Company. New York: 1905, 1923. Internet Sources: http://www.sanbornmap.com/ Sanborn Map Co. Homepage. While the company has been sold and no longer produces its trademark maps, this site still explains its old products and its current mapping work, which is largely computer-based. http://www.edrnet.com/ Current owner of Sanborn Map Co. Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 NEW RESOURCE! University of Virginia faculty, students, and staff have access to this site, which holds Sanborn maps for most cities and towns in Virginia. Taken from the company's microfilm collection, the images are black-and-white and are available for printing and downloading in PDF format. A new users' guide from Geostat is also available for this resource http://www.edrnet.com/reports/historical.html EDR Fire Insurance Map web site. One can order hardcopies of Sanborn maps from the company collection. http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/215.html Library of Congress Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Collections website. Limited but useful information and links to Special Collections Home Page. http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9712/web/map.html 1997 announcement of EDR-Library of Congress Sanborn Map web project. Dated, but gives information on the project. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/snb-intr.html UC-Berkeley's recapitulation of the Preface to Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress, but with addresses of libraries the Library of Congress sent duplicate maps http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/sanborn.html Guide to Sanborn Maps at UC-Berkeley. Includes index to collection and guide to finding maps for other states in the Berkeley catalog. http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/maps/MAPSANBORN.HTML University of Florida's Sanborn Map holdings index. http://ens.lycos.com/e-wire/january/jan119902.html News article on EDR making Sanborn Maps available with a software bundle. http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/govdoc/MapCollection/sanborn.html Index to Sanborn Maps at UC-Davis.
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Bibliography and Other Web Sites

Fortune. "Map Monopoly." Feb. 1937. 41-42.

Keister, Kim. "Charts of Change." Historic Preservation, vol. 45 no. 3. May/June, 1993.

Ristow, Walter W. Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress. Washington, D. C: Library of Congress, 1981.

Ristow, Walter W. "United States Fire Insurance and Underwriters Maps, 1852-1968." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. vol. 25 July 1968.

Sanborn Map Company. Description and Utilization of the Sanborn Map. New York: 1953.

Sanborn Map Company. Manual for the Exculsive Use and Guidance of Employees of the Sanborn Map Company. New York: 1905, 1923.

Internet Sources:

http://www.sanbornmap.com/ Sanborn Map Co. Homepage. While the company has been sold and no longer produces its trademark maps, this site still explains its old products and its current mapping work, which is largely computer-based.

http://www.edrnet.com/ Current owner of Sanborn Map Co.

Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 NEW RESOURCE!
University of Virginia faculty, students, and staff have access to this site, which holds Sanborn maps for most cities and towns in Virginia. Taken from the company's microfilm collection, the images are black-and-white and are available for printing and downloading in PDF format. A new users' guide from Geostat is also available for this resource

http://www.edrnet.com/reports/historical.html EDR Fire Insurance Map web site. One can order hardcopies of Sanborn maps from the company collection.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/215.html Library of Congress Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Collections website. Limited but useful information and links to Special Collections Home Page.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9712/web/map.html 1997 announcement of EDR-Library of Congress Sanborn Map web project. Dated, but gives information on the project.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/snb-intr.html UC-Berkeley's recapitulation of the Preface to Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress, but with addresses of libraries the Library of Congress sent duplicate maps

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/sanborn.html Guide to Sanborn Maps at UC-Berkeley. Includes index to collection and guide to finding maps for other states in the Berkeley catalog.

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/maps/MAPSANBORN.HTML University of Florida's Sanborn Map holdings index.

http://ens.lycos.com/e-wire/january/jan119902.html News article on EDR making Sanborn Maps available with a software bundle.

http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/govdoc/MapCollection/sanborn.html Index to Sanborn Maps at UC-Davis.

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THIS SITE MAINTAINED BY: geostat@virginia.edu

"Sanborn Map," "Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps," and "Sanborn Map Company" are recognized trademarks of the Sanborn Map Company, a subsidiary of Environmental Data Resources Inc (EDR). The presentation of historical Sanborn maps on this site is in no way connected with EDR-Sanborn.