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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 1894, volume 5

Sanborn fire insurance atlas of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 1894: the first 40 of its 85 sheets. Large-scale plans of Los Angeles'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 85 are at the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn00656_005/

Date
1894
Mapmaker / publisher
Sanborn Map Company
Place
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
Collection
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
Sanborn fire insurance atlas
Sheets
40
Original size
5,613 × 8,150 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.

Credit line

"Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 1894, volume 5" (1894). 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_Los_Angeles,_Los_Angeles_County,_California._LOC_sanborn00656_005-1.jpg

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The first 40 sheets on Wikimedia Commons

Each sheet links to its file at the archive; the image link is the full-size scan.

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