urban studies

Urban Documents Microfiche Collection.

GUIDE: Index to current urban documents. The documents listed in the Index to current urban documents (which the Center holds) are city and local government reports concerned with urban planning issues. These documents are reproduced in microfiche. The Center did not acquire the complete microfiche set but only a few individual titles. The records for the individual titles will appear in CRLCATALOG.

Sanborn Map Company. Sanborn fire insurance maps.

GUIDE: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division. Reference and Bibliography Section. Fire insurance maps in the Library of Congress : plans of North American cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company; a checklist. Fiche The Center holds the complete microfilm set for all 50 states and the District of Columbia which includes approximately 10,000 cities and towns. The maps cover the period from the 1880s to the 1950s.

City Directories of the United States.

GUIDE: Spear, Dorothy. Bibliography of American directories through 1860. Z5771.S7 City directories of the United States, 1860-1901 : guide to the microfilm collection. E-8735. The Center has three segments of this series: I, city directories on microfiche through 1860, based on the Spear bibliography, comprised of 6,298 fiche; II, directories from 1861-1881, on 372 reels of microfilm; III, directories from 1882-1901, in 746 reels of microfilm.