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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map typography [D.A. Sanborn]

Great Victorian and western style posters. Title pages, headings and letterforms clipped, cropped and isolated from maps and map publications issued between about 1880 and 1920. D. A. Sanborn, a young surveyor from Somerville, Massachusetts, was engaged in 1866 by the Aetna Insurance Company to prepare insurance maps for several cities in Tennessee. [..] Before working for Aetna, Sanborn conducted surveys and compiled an atlas of the city of Boston titled 'Insurance Map of Boston, Volume 1, 1867'. [..] The atlas includes twenty-nine large plates showing sections of Boston at the scale of 50 feet to an inch. It is believed to include the earliest insurance maps published by Sanborn.

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file name: Sanborn Allentown 1911


file name: Sanborn Boston 1867


file name: Sanborn Cincinnati 1904


file name: Sanborn Cripple Creek 1908


file name: Sanborn Denver 1887


file name: Sanborn Indianapolis 1915


file name: Sanborn Victoria B C 1885


file name: Sanborn Washington 1903







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