Collections Spotlight: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Collection

• Introduction to the Collection
• Locations in Sanborn Maps
• Sanborn Samplers
• Sanborn Time Series

Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. Maps Research Guide

• Searching for Sanborn Maps
• Downloading Sanborn Maps
• Interpreting Sanborn Maps
• Sanborn Atlas Volume Finder
• Sanborn Internet Resources
• Sanborn FAQs

Sanborn Maps Navigator

Library blog posts

• Baseball Stadiums and Maps: Chicago Worlds Revealed
• Baseball Stadiums and Maps: New York City Worlds Revealed
• Exploring the Past with Sanborn Maps and Newspaper Navigator The Signal
• LC Maps for Robots The Signal
• My Love for the Sanborn Maps will Never Die Inside Adams
• New Online: Mapping the U.S., Block by Block Timeless: Stories from the Library
• The Project: Reading a Sanborn Map at the Library part (a) Inside Adams
• The Project: Reading a Sanborn Map part (b) Inside Adams
• Solving a Burning Question Worlds Revealed

Teaching with the Library blog posts

• Innovations with Sanborn Maps
• Learning Beyond the Original Purpose with Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
• Tulsa’s Greenwood District: Exploring the Impact of the Tulsa Race Massacre