Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, 1887

Sanborn fire insurance atlas of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, 1887: the first 43 of its 49 sheets. Large-scale plans of Columbus'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 43 sheets; all 49 are at the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn06656_001/

Date: 1887
Mapmaker / publisher: Sanborn Map Company
Place: Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
Collection: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Archive: Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type: Sanborn fire insurance atlas
Sheets: 43
Original size: 6,656 × 7,795 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 Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, 1887" (1887). 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_Columbus,_Franklin_County,_Ohio._LOC_sanborn06656_001-1.jpg

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