Sanborn St. Louis 1951
Item
Vizurraga, Joseph. 2015. Sanborn St. Louis 1951, Urban Books, accessed July 25, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/urban-books/item/57950
- Title
- Sanborn St. Louis 1951
- Creator
- Vizurraga, Joseph
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Founded in 1867, the Sanborn Company created maps for American cities, primarily for the purposes of fire insurance. The shading of these maps depicted the materials and construction of each building. In the act of creating and publishing these maps of large cities like St. Louis, Sanborn broke the city down into different blocks. Each volume of maps is devoted to a specific block. When reading these maps as a whole today, it is up to the reader to piece these different blocks together, like sewing patches of fabric on a quilt, or putting together pieces of a puzzle
- Call Number
- N7433.4.V59 S26 2016
- Link to Catalog Record
- https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8927921~S2
- Media
Sanborn St. Louis 1951
Vizurraga, Joseph. 2015. Sanborn St. Louis 1951, Urban Books, accessed July 25, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/urban-books/item/57950