Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, 1887

Sanborn fire insurance atlas of Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, 1887: the first 40 of its 58 sheets. Large-scale plans of Paterson'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 58 are at the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn05590_001/

Date: 1887
Mapmaker / publisher: Sanborn Map Company
Place: Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey
Collection: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Archive: Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type: Sanborn fire insurance atlas
Sheets: 40
Original size: 5,624 × 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.

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"Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, 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_Paterson,_Passaic_County,_New_Jersey._LOC_sanborn05590_001-1.jpg

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