Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 1908, volume 19

Sanborn fire insurance atlas of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 1908: the first 41 of its 131 sheets. Large-scale plans of Brooklyn's streets and buildings, block by block, showing each building's outline, construction material, number of floors, use and street address, made for fire insurance underwriters. Wikimedia Commons holds the first 41 sheets; all 131 are at the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn05791_019/

Date: 1908
Mapmaker / publisher: Sanborn Map Company
Place: Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Collection: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Archive: Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type: Sanborn fire insurance atlas
Sheets: 41
Original size: 7,525 × 10,833 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category on the sheets: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file pages.

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"Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 1908, volume 19" (1908). Sanborn Map Company. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanborn_Fire_Insurance_Map_from_Brooklyn,_Kings_County,_New_York._LOC_sanborn05791_019-1.jpg

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