[ditto apologies from FH] From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Elizabeth J Cox Sent: 07 December 2016 15:36 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Sanborn maps online Apologies if this has already been posted here. In the September/October issue of the Library of Congress magazine, there was an article about the LC effort to digitize their entire collection of Sanborn Fire Insurance maps. According to the article, by year's end, more than 100,000 maps published before 1900 will be available online. Over the next three years, an additional 400,000 public-domain maps will be added. Link to the Sept/Oct issue, which includes a bunch of other map-related articles (Sanborn article on p. 20): https://www.loc.gov/lcm/pdf/LCM_2016_0910.pdf Link to the Sanborn maps collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps/ Beth ELIZABETH J. COX Associate Professor, Coordinator of Cataloging & Metadata MORRIS LIBRARY MAIL CODE 6632 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY 605 AGRICULTURE DRIVE CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS 62901 [log in to unmask] P: 618.453.5594; F: 618.453.3452