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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, 1889, volume 2

Sanborn fire insurance atlas of Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, 1889: the first 40 of its 73 sheets. Large-scale plans of Providence'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 73 are at the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn08099_002/

Date
1889
Mapmaker / publisher
Sanborn Map Company
Place
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Collection
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
Sanborn fire insurance atlas
Sheets
40
Original size
5,569 × 8,031 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 Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, 1889, volume 2" (1889). 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_Providence,_Providence_County,_Rhode_Island._LOC_sanborn08099_002-1.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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