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Maps and Government Information (MGI)

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These specialized collections are located in the
Map Room.

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SANBORN FIRE INSURANCE ATLASES:

The Sanborn Map Co. was a company that made maps for the fire insurance industry. Since 1867 they have made atlases and maps for more than 12,000 towns and cities across the United States. The maps show building footprints, building dimensions, property line locations, and street right-of-ways at a very detailed scale. Structures were given different colors according to the type of building material they were made from.

Syracuse University's Sanborn collection includes atlases in online, microfilm and paper formats.

ONLINE

• Access: Available from UMI's Digital Sanborn Maps archive listed on the SUMMIT database page. PLEASE NOTE that access is available ONLY for SU and SUNY-ESF students, faculty and staff.
• Coverage: National
• Time span: covers the dates 1870-1960. For more current dates see MICROFILM (next)

MICROFILM

• Access: MGI reference desk. Volumes in this format are NOT included in the online version.
• Coverage: available only for the following states.
• Connecticut
• Massachusetts
• New York
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Vermont
• Washington, DC
• Time span: atlases date from 1970-1990

PRINT

• Access: MGI Map Room
• Coverage: New York City (ONLY), here is a list of our holdings
• Time span: volumes date from 1908-1982 depending on the volume.

INDEX MAPS

• Syracuse
• 1892 (PDF)
• 1910-1950 (PDF)
• 1953-1990 (PDF)
• New York City
• Manhattan - Bronx
• 1890-1892 (PDF)
• 1893-1896 (PDF)
• 1897-1899 (PDF)
• 1900-1908 (PDF)
• 1909-1919 (PDF)
• 1920-1946 (PDF)
• 1947-1990 (PDF)
• Staten Island (Richmond)
• 1885-1909 (PDF)
• 1910-1916 (PDF)
• 1917-1936 (PDF)
• 1937-1977 (PDF)
• 1978-1990 (PDF)
• Queens
• 1898-1910 (PDF)
• 1911-1917 (PDF)
• 1918-1930 (PDF)
• 1931-1933 (PDF)
• 1934-1941 (PDF)
• 1942-1990 (PDF)
• Brooklyn (Kings)
• 1886-1888 (PDF)
• 1889-1895 (PDF)
• 1896-1914 (PDF)
• 1915-1990 (PDF)

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CD-ROMs

These materials are located in the Geographic and Statistical Information Center (G-SIC). Listed below are some of the available titles. To search for the many other CD atlas titles in SUMMIT follow the search strategy outlined below.

• From SUMMIT&s basic search screen.
• Type "atlas AND electronic" in the "Search for:" box.
• Next, select "Boolean" from the "Search in:" box.
• Now click the search button

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• Rand McNally Quick Reference Atlas
  • Call number - G1019.R225 1996 - Bird Library - GIS Lab
• DeLorme Global Explorer
  • Call number - G1021.D45 1993 - Bird Library - GIS Lab
• Planet Earth
  • Call number - G1021.M2 1997 - Bird Library - GIS Lab
• Macmillan Digital World Atlas
  • Call number - G1021.M23 1996 - Bird Library - GIS Lab
• Virtual Globe
  • Call number - G1021.M52 1997 - Bird Library - GIS Lab
• The Cities Below
  • Call number - G1204.A3N6 1995 - Bird Library - GIS Lab
• Ordnance Survey Interactive Atlas of Great Britian
  • Call number - G1812.2.G7 1996 - Bird Library - GIS Lab
• 3D Talking Globe
  • Call number - G3170 1996.N6 - Bird Library - GIS Lab
• Delorme&s New York State 3-D TopoQuads
  Consists of 5 CD&s that cover the entire state of New York.
  • Call number - G1251.C2D4 1999 - Bird Library - GIS Lab
• Sanborn Maps
  The GIS Lab has the following New York State Counties on CD:
  Madison - G1238.M3 1999 .S26

  Oneida - G1238.O2 1999 .S26

  Onondaga - G1238.O3 1999 .S26

  Oswego - G1238.O7 1999 .S26
• National Geographic Maps on CD-ROM
  Contains all the folded map supplements published in the National Geographic Magazine from 1888 to 1997 on 8 CD-ROM discs.
  • Call number - G1.N273M2 1998 - Bird Library - GIS Lab

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GEOLOGIC ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES:

This atlas is comprised of 227 folios issued from 1894 to 1945 for various areas around the United States. This series of map folios published by the USGS was never completed and was superceded by the various geological map series currently being published. USGS National Geologic Map Database

Here is a list of folios alphabetically by state.

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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

• New York - The Map Collection has pre-WW II (1937-42) coverage for 25 of the 62 counties. (PDF coverage map). All photos are black & white 9x9" or 7x9".
• Susquehanna Watershed Project - The Map Collection has coverage for the counties flown in this 1936/37 that cover the Susquehanna Watershed in New York State. (PDF coverage map)
• New York - Post WW 2 photos (1947- 1988) are available for most counties. Check sheet index on top of the aerial photo file cabinets. (PDF coverage map coming soon)
• Antarctica - These are the 1947-48 flights done by the US Navy. Coverage is for explored regions and include vertical, left and right obiques sets for each flight line totaling about 28,000 photos. There is also an associated collection of 8x10 black & white glossy photos of equipment, personel, and activities during this mission. This is the first of two aerial flights done for Antarctica. The second set of flights were flown in 1952-53. These are located at the USGS Library in Reston, VA.

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TRAVEL FILE

This is a collection of over 7000 pamphlets, brouchures, and maps of tourist and travel destinations from all over the world. We encourage students and staff to donate their pamphletes to the collection when they return from their travels.

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MAP ROOM REFERENCE COLLECTION AND RESTRICTED MAPS

Reference materials include: Carto-bibliographies, dictionaries, Library catalogs of other map collections, travel guidebook, geographical encyclopedias, and other geographical reference books. These items are located to your right as you enter the Map Room.

Restricted maps include: Zoning maps, pre-1900 maps for the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County, maps of Syracuse University, and maps that are heavily used of other parts of the state and country.

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