Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Seattle, King County, Washington, 1893, volume 3

Sanborn fire insurance atlas of Seattle, King County, Washington, 1893: the first 40 of its 85 sheets. Large-scale plans of Seattle'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/sanborn09315_003/

Date: 1893
Mapmaker / publisher: Sanborn Map Company
Place: Seattle, King County, Washington
Collection: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Archive: Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type: Sanborn fire insurance atlas
Sheets: 40
Original size: 5,874 × 8,504 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 Seattle, King County, Washington, 1893, volume 3" (1893). 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_Seattle,_King_County,_Washington._LOC_sanborn09315_003-1.jpg

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