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Maps and More

resources from the regular collections show-and-tell at the Earth Sciences and Map Library

SOMA before Moscone

Bancroft's Mercantile Map of San Francisco
Call Number: G4364.S5 1868 .N3 (Case D)
Index map of the City and County of San Francisco
Call Number: G4364.S5 1902 .D6 (Case B)
Map of part of San Francisco, California, April 18, 1908 : showing buildings constructed and buildings under construction during two years after fire of April 18, 1906
Call Number: G4364.S5E73 1908 .P8 (Case D)
Election precincts : City and County of San Francisco, 1912
Call Number: G4364.S5F7 1912 .E4 no. 1 (Case D)
A Pictorial Map of San Francisco
Call Number: G4364.S5A5 1939 .C3 (Case D)
Proposed land use plan, generalized
Call Number: G4364.S5G45 1948 .S5 (Case D)
One-way streets in San Francisco business district
Call Number: G4364.S5P2 1971 .C3 (Case D)
Downtown San Francisco
Call Number: G4364.S5A4 1977 .W4 (Case B)

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970
Search for historic Sanborn Maps of San Francisco.

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.

1905 Sanborn Atlas of San Francisco
Color scans of the 1905 Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlas of San Francisco.

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Scanned from the San Francisco Public Library collection by David Rumsey.

Moscone and Yerba Buena Development

Urban renewal in San Francisco
Call Number: G4364.S5G455 1965 .S3 (Case D)
San Francisco redevelopment program: Yerba Buena Center
Call Number: G4364.S5G45 1967 .S3 (Case D)
YBG esplanade / Alan Greenberger ; MGA Partners Architects.
Call Number: G4364.S5:2Y4 1992 .G7 no. A0.03, no. A1.02, no. A1.02, no. A1.03 (Case B)
Yerba Buena Gardens : San Francisco's newest neighborhood is a site to behold
Call Number: G4364.S5:2Y4 1993 .M6 (Case D)
Color air photo of Yerba Buena Gardens area, San Francisco, Calif.
Call Number: G4364.S5:2Y4A4 1994 .W3 (Case B)
Union Square, Yerba Buena, Moscone Center : San Francisco
Call Number: G4364.S5A15 1996 .R5 (Case B)
South of Market neighborhood guide.
Call Number: F869.S33 S68 1997
A detailed map of downtown San Francisco
Call Number: G4364.S5A15 1993 .C6

Other San Francisco resources

The Mission Bay plan proposal for citizen review
Call Number: G4364.S5G45 1984 .W6 (Case D)
Infinite city: a San Francisco atlas by Rebecca Solnit
Call Number: G1527.S22 S6 2010
Publication Date: 2010
San Francisco North quadrangle, California : 7.5 minute series (Topographic)
Call Number: G3700 svar .U6 CA San Francisco North 1950
Ground Shaking in San Francisco
Call Number: G4364.S5C55 1995 .B6 (Case B)

State of California Seismic Hazard Zones: City and County of San Francisco

Topographic survey [of the coasts of the United States]
Call Number: G3700 svar .U5 no, T-2205; T-2482
United States Nautical Charts: San Francisco Bay Visitation Point to Point Blunt
Call Number: G3701.P5 svar .U51 #5535 (Case B)