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[s3id] Typography of Sanborn NYC maps « Sinclair Scott Smith ...: Designer Christian Annyas has a post up featuring gorgeous covers from Sanborn insurance map books. I've drooled over plates like these in the Pratt Library which has stacks .

[iTREVINO] A fond farewell to The Obscure Store | iTREVINO: Absolutely beeeeeyooootiful typography on these Sanborn fire insurance maps. Sanborn’s fire insurance enterprise produced not only excellent and detailed urban maps, but they also maintained an elegant aesthetic in the headings and legends on the maps themselves, and in the title pages of the (larger) city volumes.

[Things That Have Nothing To Do With Credit Unions But Have Everything To Do With Credit Unions] Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Typography: Gorgeous cover for insurance maps from 1880 to 1920. The "but we're a conservative, unsexy industry" excuse for mediocre design is now officially invalid.

[Spy On Design] BibliOdyssey: Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Typography « Spy On ...: A collection of beautifully intricate, vintage typography by the Sanborn Map Company, ranging from 1880 to 1920.

[the BIG Map Blog] US40 #2 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (Rail ... - The Big Map Blog: The reason I bring that up is that Sanborn Insurance maps have shown me that the Silver Lake house I live in was built in 1906 yet that rectangular section of that community (bordered to the north and south by Reservoir and Marathon in this map) remains entirely unsubdivided and undeveloped. This is a phenomenal map and I’m thrilled you shared it, I’m just curious where the year came from as I’m wondering if it might have actually been created a few years earlier.

[Mama's Sauce » Blog] Hand Lettering At It's Best « Mama's Sauce: They produced some seriously gorgeous hand-lettered maps back in the day, many of which can be found in the Library of Congress. These late 19th and early 20th century type treatments are well worth passing around .

[little things studio] Irish Piano Music: I am going to post some of the beautiful things from our estate. I’m starting it off with piano music. I think most of this you are viewing belonged to Nellie McCann.

[Workflow: Freelance] Kansas City Sanborn Fire Insurance Map - Workflow: Freelance: is a collection of Websites, services, and communities built to Empower, Inform, and Connect Creative Professionals. The websites in the Network cover a broad range of topics, services, and functions for creative professionals of many disciplines.

[rss.vg] I love typography, the typography and fonts blog: Some beauties in these excerpts from Sanborn fire-insurance maps (wasn't aware such things existed). Love this title-page: Plenty more over at BibliOdyssey.

[Vintage Me Oh My] Confederate Bills, 1800s « Vintage Me Oh My: What happened to these gorgeous bills!? I had no idea there was a time ... Please log in to WordPress.com to post a comment to your blog. ... I Like Your Type | a… on Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Typ… Lina on Interview with ...

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