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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina |
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The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina collection includes over 4,600 sheets covering 97 South Carolina towns and cities from 1884 to the 1960s. The maps show the footprints of buildings and provide information about the number of stories, building materials, and uses. The South Carolina Library has digitized the maps for South Carolina and made them available on line at www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/sanborn.html .
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On the digital library of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina, you can search on line by city, year, or county. All maps are displayed with original color coding. Users can zoom in and out of maps and can pan right, left, up, or down to examine details. Every map is accompanied by bibliographic data. The full collection can be browsed or the user can choose to browse just the unpublished maps. The collection can be searched by city, year of publication, and county. The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina provide many details about mills and are particularly useful in revealing spatial relationships and location of railroad lines.
Making a video site for Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina was a large project that took two years to complete. It began before the formation of the Digital Activities Department and therefore is considered the first true digital library project undertaken by the library. Consequently, the project of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina started off without the infrastructure and support that current projects have, resulting in numerous obstacles to overcome, such as a lack of server space and standards for meta data.
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