Sanborn Maps Penn State

Sanborn® fire insurance maps are the most frequently consulted maps in libraries. The maps chart the growth and development of thousands of america towns and cities across a century. Sanborn fire insurance maps newly available online through university libraries | penn state university.

The sanborn map company, the best known of the u.s. Penn state university libraries projects. These fire insurance maps were used to provide risk assessments for insurance companies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Interactive webmap showing sanborn fire insurance maps of philadelphia and surrounding counties. Hamer maps library owns a collection of historical sanborns ™ fire insurance maps that provide four snapshots in time of state college and penn state in 1906, 1911, 1922, and 1929. The sanborn fire insurance maps of 1925 became part of the public domain on jan. (geotiff images for major us cities) digital.