Map Specialist
Donald W. Hamer Center for Maps and Geospatial Information
Penn State University Libraries
University Park, PA 16802
Donald W. Hamer Center for Maps and Geospatial Information
Site Surveys
Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance
"The two thousand industrial site maps in the Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company Industrial Site Maps Collection, 1894-1954, chronicle sixty years of North American industrial development. Representing industrial sites in thirty-five states, the District of Columbia, and three Canadian provinces, these maps provide valuable information on site selection, power sources, building construction, and space allocation of major corporations, such as General Foods Corporation, International Paper Company, and Ford Motor Company, as well as many lesser-known firms."
Judith E. Endelman [preface] Guide to The Manufacturers Mutual fire Insurance Company Industrial Site Maps, 1894-1954, p.ix
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- Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance MapsIncludes all 50 states with many sites in Pennsylvania
Hexamer General Surveys - Site Surveys
The General Surveys are site surveys of many of the industrial sites in the greater Philadelphia metro area. They date from 1866 through 1896.
- Hexamer & Locher Fire Insurance mapsThis series of maps (predecessors to the Hexamer & Son Insurance Maps and Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps) date from 1858 through 1864, and cover Wards 1-16, and 20. Within
the volumes are detailed maps of neighborhoods that indicate: businesses, schools,
organizations, industrial factories, and houses. They also indicate details like building materials and lot perimeters. - Hexamer & Sons Fire Insurance mapsThis series of insurance maps of Philadelphia (predecessors to the Sanborn Fire
Insurance Maps) date from the 1870s through the 1920s. Within the volumes are detailed maps of neighborhoods that indicate: businesses, schools, organizations, industrial factories, and houses. They also indicate details like: building materials, lot perimeters, and street widths.