New Additions – November 2021

Missouri Valley Special Collections staff have been hard at work adding new content to KCHistory. Below, you will find a list of newly digitized objects added to the site during the month of November.

We are excited to add a newly digitized Sanborn fire insurance map volume to the site. Volume 9 was originally published in 1930. A previous edition updated through 1941 was already on KCHistory. The new volume was updated through 1957 and shows changes to some of the city’s south and southeastern neighborhoods throughout the 1940s and ‘50s. The 1957 volume also includes new map pages for neighborhoods near Meyer Boulevard and The Paseo, 75th Street and Prospect Avenue, 75th Street and Troost Avenue, 81st Street and State Line Road, and others.

Each sheet was uploaded as an individual map image, and as a complete volume for easy navigation.

Click here to view the complete volume »

Sanborn maps were created to help determine fire insurance rates and provide detailed, color-coded information about the structures they display. A more detailed introduction to Sanborn map research and a listing of individual volumes available on KCHistory can be found here.

The key map at the beginning of the volume can be used to locate specific areas of the city within the volume.

The key to symbols on the same page can be used to decipher the maps’ symbols and color-coding.

Pasted in sections indicate unique updates to this volume not reflected in previous editions (Top: the 1930-1941 edition; Bottom: the same sheet in the 1930-1957 edition).