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Building Colorado Story by Story: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection is a digital collection of Sanborn fire insurance maps of cities across Colorado. The collection contains 346 maps of 79 principal cities in 52 counties covering the years 1883-1922.
Sanborn fire insurance maps are large scale historical city maps, detailed at the block and building level, that show residential, commercial, and industrial uses of sites, building footprints, potential environmental hazards, and construction details of structures.
The Building Colorado Story by Story collection is available through two interfaces, which each offer different search and display options.
Building Colorado Story by Story via Custom Website
Special features:
- Search by map
- Easily accessible sample map key and abbreviations list
- Link to more information about Sanborn fire insurance maps
- Link to teaching tools, resources from past workshops, and an online tutorial
- Zoom in to high resolution image to view details of the map
- Right-click to save higher-resolution map
Standard features on both sites:
- Basic search by date, city, county, and keyword
- Advanced search by all data fields, including sheet number, notes, etc.
- View map descriptive information (metadata)
Building Colorado Story by Story via Luna Insight (Turn Off Pop-up Blockers)
Special features:
- Ability to create and save groups of maps
- Easily print map and descriptive information
Standard features on both sites:
- Basic search by date, city, county, and keyword
- Advanced search by all data fields, including sheet number, notes, etc.
- View map descriptive information (metadata)
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