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Searching for Sanborn fire insurance map links

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Searching for Sanborn fire insurance map links
Posted by Road Fan on Saturday, November 22, 2008 8:03 PM

I'm looking for links to online Sanborn Fire insurance maps or similar type maps.  The Everett Public library has a digital on-line collection that is open to everyone online, and I found a collection in South Carolina too, but it's difficult to find links to other online collections that offer so much historical railroad information.

 

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Posted by MJChittick on Saturday, November 22, 2008 9:29 PM

I don't know that this link will help you very much since you must have an account, user name and password in order to access to database.  Here it is anyway:

http://sanborn.umi.com/

 

Mike

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Sunday, November 23, 2008 5:58 PM

Road Fan
The Everett Public library has a digital on-line collection that is open to everyone online, and I found a collection in South Carolina too, but it's difficult to find links to other online collections that offer so much historical railroad information.

So why don't you start by posting the two you've already found and then add others to your list as others post them?   Unfortunately I had a subscription and in the mean time lost all the links to the free ones that I knew about.

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Posted by Road Fan on Monday, November 24, 2008 1:02 PM

Thumbs UpThat's a good idea-  Here is the link to the digital on-line Sanborn Fire Insurance maps for Everett, WA.  As soon as I re-locate the link to the one in South Carolina, I will add that one too. 

I went to the Sanborn map site, but it requires that the person belong to an approved institution and get the necessary permissions from Pro-logic??

Anyway, here is the link to Everett, Wa's Sanborn maps for 1914 smf 1955.  If anyone has additional links, please add them to this thread.

http://www.epls.org/nw/dig_sanborn.asp

 

Thanks,

Road Fan

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