[PRCo] Re: Sanborn Maps

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

Speaking of the Sanborn Fire maps, is anyone aware of the Pittsburgh maps
being digitized and put on the web?  It is in the back of my mind that
someone was working on that project.

Bob

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Derrick J Brashear [mailto:shadow at dementia.org] 
Sent:	Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:06 AM
To:	'pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org'
Subject:	[PRCo] Re: Rt. 49 and Brownsville Ave. single track


On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:

> 
> I hope we are not going to get into the intersecting of Fifth and Sixth
> Avenues!!!

How about the corner of Penn and Liberty?
> 
> So it appears that Arlington was Brownsville Road around 1927 (Approx time
> of the court proceeding that John started this with), and Arlington Ave.
by
> 1931.  Well, we got that unless and irrelevant piece of information down
to
> a 4 year span. 

Actually I suppose I (should have known) this, because parenthetically
Arlington is "Brownsville Rd" on the Sanborn fire insurance maps, in this
case I was looking at 1950 or so.

Not that I've had a lot of time recently but Hunt Library at CMU has 4
states, one of which is PA, with several years in the PA set, on microfilm

-D