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Exploring the Past with Sanborn Maps and Newspaper Navigator

Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal

Walk the streets of any U.S. city today, and you might come across historic markers or masonry etchings indicating what the buildings used to be. It is always fascinating to learn what our neighborhoods, cities, and towns used to be —factories turned residences, street names changed, the places and spaces our predecessors lived, ate, and …