Insurance maps of Auburn, Alabama.

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Insurance maps of Auburn, Alabama.

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Photocopies of fire insurance maps from 1897, 1903, 1909, 1919, and 1928, for Auburn, Alabama, and the campus of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now Auburn University.

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Auburn University.

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Auburn University.

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Sanborn Map Company

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The Sanborn Map Company was founded in 1867 with headquarters in New York City. Its purpose was to produce maps that would show "at a glance the character of the fire insurance risks of all buildings" in a give community. Since these maps had a very specialized use, "there were usually fewer than twenty orders for a single map sheet". Consequently, even though Sanborn maps are printed works, their rarity is similar to that of manuscript maps. The Sanborn Map Company ceased making its insurance r...

Alabama Polytechnic Institute

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Auburn university

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East Alabama Male College, sponsored by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was chartered in May 1856. Classes opened in 1859 in Auburn, Alabama, but the college closed during the Civil War. Reopening in 1866, the college became a land-grant institution in 1872 and changed its name to Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. The college was known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1899 to 1960, when it became Auburn University. From the description of Founders Day collec...