Selected Print Sources for Sanborn Map Information
Hoehn, R. Philip. Union List of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Held by Institutions in the United States and Canada. Santa Cruz, CA : Western Association of Map Libraries, 1976-77.
Library of Congress. Geography & Map Section. Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress: Plans of North American cities and Towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company, A Checklist. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1981.
Oswald, Diane L. Fire Insurance Maps: Their History and Applications. College Station, Tex.: Lacewing press, 1997. Willis, Alfred, ed. "Cartographic Information for Architecture." Art Reference Services Quarterly. Volume 1, Number 3, 1993. Binghamton, N.Y. : Haworth Press, 1993.Internet Sources for Sanborn Map Information
Sanborn Map Company (now a subsidiary of EDR)
http://www.sanbornmap.com
Environmental Data Resources (EDR)
http://www.edrnet.com/reports/historical.html
(purchase paper copies over the net from Sanborn's own archives)
Library of Congress. Geography & Map Division
http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/215.html
(only very basic info about Sanborns)
Ancestry.com
http://ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/1422.asp
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/localhistory/articles/sanborn.html
(good background, traces a sample site using Sanborns)
University of California Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/sanborn.html
(includes introduction to Library of Congress' checklist of Sanborns)
University of Virginia GEOSTAT
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/sanborn
(maps for Charlottesville but also great resources on Sanborn history and "how to read" a Sanborn)