Yes the Sanborn maps are on Mico Film in the State Library in Springfield.
However they often do not show tracks as the tracks were not insured. The
maps for Aurora show only a double track thru town. In Q days it was three.
Do show the outlineof the quarry were the Old Aurora Depot is now. So you
have to take the maps with a grain of salt and field studies
sjh
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Hirt <whirt@a...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Sanborn map link working?
> Randy Gordon-Gilmore wrote:
> >
> > At 12:05 PM 3/2/02 -0800, Bob wrote:
> >
> > >site. Anyone else had this problem? Any solutions?
> >
> > I think that "aalto" way overused his/her access and was banned from the
> > site. :-(
> >
>
> It was on borrowed time anyway. The University of Buffalo which had the
> demo account (which was posted to LDSIG list from the Erie Lackawanna
> list) had the access ending January 31. So any day after that was a
> bonus day. I suspect that the system admin on the Sanborn site updates
> the demo password list once a month and had missed removing the U of B's
> demo account from the month before. They didn't miss this time. It
> certainly was great while it lasted and provides an interesting insight
> into many towns.
>
> Some library systems have subscriptions to the Sanborn service and give
> their local card holders access to the maps even at home. I have seen
> several in Illinois mentioned that offer this service. The drawback is
> that your access is often limited to that state (library in Illinois
> only has access to maps for Illinois).
>
> Someday this whole set is supposed to be made available through the
> Library of Congress' web site. It's been referenced on their for the
> past two years, but I've not seen any progress in seeing the maps
> available. I suspect the L of C is digitizing their own collection
> rather than using the current Sanborn collection. The reason for this
> could be to actually scan the color charts which are not available on
> the Sanborn site.
>
> Bill
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