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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, 1899, volume 3

Sanborn fire insurance atlas of Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, 1899: the first 41 of its 105 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 41 sheets; all 105 are at the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn08099_003/

Date
1899
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
41
Original size
6,768 × 7,914 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, 1899, volume 3" (1899). 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_003-1.jpg

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The first 41 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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