I got a tip that the Library of Congress just made their whole collection of Sanborn maps available. Whether that is true or not I don't know, but the worst I'm doing is sharing a link for the sake of posterity:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps/about-this-collection/
Enjoy!
kjypls, post: 429978, member: 9749 wrote: I got a tip that the Library of Congress just made their whole collection of Sanborn maps available. Whether that is true or not I don't know, but the worst I'm doing is sharing a link for the sake of posterity:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps/about-this-collection/
Enjoy!
That's a great resource. I wish that they would include scans of the Instructions to Surveyors that Sanborn printed in various editions. That is, Sanborn hired an army of surveyors to actually map the districts shown upon the maps, but with a specific object in mind, i.e. for fire insurance rating purposes., and set them to work with specific instructions. The result is well short of a land survey, but was prepared from some measurements.
It is a great way to see how older districts were built up and to to even identify particular buildings that appear on the maps as having been in place on the date of the map.
They're magnificent.
Detailed. Even shows where the vault is in a bank.:bomb:
Plenty of beer gardens, servants quarters.
I imagine historians would drool over such.
I love browsing our early town surveys. They give details and tell stories long forgotten, or in some cases correct ones from others that are completely garbled.
Thanks for the info. Dallas County is not listed yet. Looks like they have a ways to go in getting everything online.
Glenn Breysacher, post: 430413, member: 188 wrote: Thanks for the info. Dallas County is not listed yet. Looks like they have a ways to go in getting everything online.
You can find the Dallas Sanborn maps, beginning in 1885 in the Perry Casta?ñeda Library Map Collection at UT Austin, just around the corner of the internet:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/sanborn/d.html
Kent McMillan, post: 430415, member: 3 wrote: You can find the Dallas Sanborn maps, beginning in 1885 in the Perry Casta?ñeda Library Map Collection at UT Austin, just around the corner of the internet:
Kent,
I have those, thank you kindly. I was hoping the Library of Congress scans might contain maps of other years, or even better resolution scans (although the UT scans are very good).
Sanborn maps are early GIS, almost like aerial photography.