[PRCo] Re: Pennsylvania Sanborn Maps

[Derrick Brashear]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Stephen Titchenal
<stephen at titchenal.com> wrote:
> I am looking for additional sources of maps of Pennsylvania Towns that may
> show interurban/trolley routes through smaller towns. Sanborn Fire Insurance
> Maps can sometimes be helpful. They were originally done for the insurance
> industry and mapped businesses and towns using color to indicate building
> type (brick, wood, etc).
>
> In Ohio anyone with a library card can search the commercial Proquest
> collection digitized from Microfilm (B&W). A few libraries in the Pittsburgh
> area appear to have local subscriptions to the online scanned microfilm set
> of Pennsylvania towns or the original microfilm collection (73 reels)
> Sanborn fire insurance maps. Pennsylvania [microform]
> Publish Info    Teaneck, N.J. : Chadwyck-Healey, 1983
>
> Penn State at State College has a few areas scanned in color (basically
> towns beginning with "A").
> http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital.html#row1
>
> The Library of Congress has a significant collection, but very little is
> available digitally yet.
> http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/sanborn/index.php
>
> Can anyone recommend the best library to view the Pennsylvania Sanborn maps
> either online or using microfilm? Or are original maps available someplace
> closer than State College or the Library of Congress?

Hunt Library at CMU has a set on microfilm.

That's all I know of.



-- 
Derrick