Environmental Design Library
Vernacular Architecture and Landscape Architecture Resource Guide
Vernacular Architecture and Landscape Architecture Resource Guide: Other Resources
This is a brief and selective guide to materials available in the Environmental Design Library.
Journals and Indexes
Maps provide clues to ordinary buildings and sites and their changes over time. Plat maps, also called fire insurance maps, show a variety of details, including actual lot boundaries, special uses, building materials and building footprints.
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970
Access to large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.
Access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn maps are historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years.
(UC Berkeley, Library) Links to description of and indexes to fire insurance maps.
Fire insurance maps in the Library of Congress : plans of North American cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company : a checklist
compiled by the Reference and Bibliography Section, Geography and Map Division. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1981.
Insurance maps of Berkeley, California,
Sanborn Map Company. NY: The Co., 1911. Includes Albany and parts of Emeryville and Oakland.
Sanborn fire insurance maps: California 1884-1952
Index available
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, San Francisco, California, 1899/1900,
Courtesy of San Francisco Genealogy. The black and white maps presented here are from six volumes that covered San Francisco in 1899 and 1900. To locate a specific location, consult the various indexes to locate the correct Map Sheet. Then select the appropriate link.
San Francisco Maps
Courtesy of San Francisco Genealogy. Guide and links to historic, street and other maps.
U.S. historical city maps
(Univ. of Texas, Austin) Digitized maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the Univ. of Texas at Austin.
Consult the Earth Sciences and Map Library for more resources.
Archival Collections and Primary Source Databases
Environmental Design Archives
Provides primary source material for scholarly research, teaching support and preservation on the work of nearly 100 of the San Francisco Bay Region's historically significant architects, landscape architects and firms.
Online Archive of California (OAC)
Access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California including the 10 UC campuses.
A searchable and browseable resource that brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. Contains over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections. Images are organized into thematic and institutional collections, such as historical topics, nature, places, and technology.
Image Databases
Image Sources for the Built Environment
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