Currently working on a book about Sanborn maps and their history. The company was the largest employer of cartographers until the 1940s, and provided employment for hundreds of women too!
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Beyond ‘Clerical Cartography’: Gender and the (Re)Production of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Building on recent scholarship, this paper examines the gendered divisions of labour in the production of fire insurance maps for the Sanborn Map Company. As a major producer of map titles in the U...
