Fire Insurance Maps
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
setName: label: See more items in
content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Insurance
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Boxes
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1873-1896
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Maps are arranged in alphabetical order by name of company.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Fire Insurance Maps were designed to assist insurance companies assess the risk of manufacturing companies. A large majority of these maps were published by the Barlow Company. The insurance maps include the name of the company, location, a description of their foundries, interior features, fire appliances, manufacturing processes, and a diagram of each company.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Researchers interested in additional Barlow maps pertaining to the textile mills and related industries should consult the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum in North Andover, Massachusetts. The Museum has produced a geographical listing of its holdings. 

The Baker Library of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration holds about 1,600 maps and has produced a name index for its holdings. 

Another 25 maps are in the New York State Library. Both the Baker collection and the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum's collection originally came from the Warshaw Collection before the Smithsonian Institution purchased it.