American Studies

Note about ProQuest's Digital Sanborn Maps

The maps are available at M.I.T. and the Somerville, Waltham, Watertown, and Woburn Public Libraries (not the Boston Public Library). There is no remote access; you must go to the library. The maps were digitized from the microform set and are in black and white.

• Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center - Boston Public Library
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: 1885, 1887, 1888 - Harvard University

  [City proper]. 1885 [Back Bay and South End]. 1887 Roxbury, West Roxbury, and parts of Brighton and Brookline. 1888 [South Boston and parts of Dorchester]. 1888 [East Boston and Charlestown]. 1888 [Cambridge and parts of Somerville]. Digitized from original books; in color. No restrictions on access copy.
• About Sanborn Maps: Keys, Colors, & Interpretation - Library of Congress
• Union List of Sanborn & Other Fire Insurance Maps: Boston - University of California, Berkeley

  The list is arranged by volume: Boston Vols. 1-11. Dated original maps in Boston area libraries.. No links to online maps.
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Digital Collection

Sanborn fire insurance maps Massachusetts [1867-1950]
Black and white. 48 microfilm reels.
Microfilm of Sanborn Map Company maps held in the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.

Mugar Library Microforms HG9778. M37 S45. 
 

Reel 4

Boston, 1867, v.l: Downtown; 1885, v.1 Downtown - South End/Sections 1-25C; 1887, v.2 Back Bay - South End/Sections 29-59; 1888, v.3 Roxbury - Jamaica Plain - West Roxbury, parts of Brighton & Brookline/Sections 62-100; 1888, v.4 South Boston-Dorchester - Mattapan/Sections 106-141.

Reel 5

Boston, 1895, v.1 Downtown - Chinatown/Sections 1-58; 1897, v.2 Back Bay - South End - North Dorchester/Sections 1-83; 1897, v. 3 Roxbury - Mission Hill - Jamaica Plain (West Roxbury)/Sections 1-112; 1899, v.4 South Boston - North Dorchester/Sections 1-104; 1900, v.5 Charlestown - East Boston/Sections 1-111.