Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, 1888

Sanborn fire insurance atlas of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, 1888: the first 40 of its 87 sheets. Large-scale plans of Grand Rapids'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 40 sheets; all 87 are at the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn04023_001/

Date: 1888
Mapmaker / publisher: Sanborn Map Company
Place: Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan
Collection: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Archive: Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type: Sanborn fire insurance atlas
Sheets: 40
Original size: 5,631 × 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 Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, 1888" (1888). 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_Grand_Rapids,_Kent_County,_Michigan._LOC_sanborn04023_001-1.jpg

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