Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, 1888

Sanborn fire insurance atlas of Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, 1888: the first 46 of its 84 sheets. Large-scale plans of Washington'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 46 sheets; all 84 are at the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn01227_001/

Date: 1888
Mapmaker / publisher: Sanborn Map Company
Place: Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia
Collection: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Archive: Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type: Sanborn fire insurance atlas
Sheets: 46
Original size: 13,662 × 9,900 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 Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, 1888" (1888). 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_Washington,_District_of_Columbia,_District_of_Columbia._LOC_sanborn01227_001-1.jpg

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