Diane:

I'm not sure if you are only covering the USA, but some county and
city record offices in the UK hold copies of original plans submitted to
urban authorities for  health and safety approval for domestic, commercial
and industrial buildings under legislation going back to 1849.  My former
Leicestershire Service has around 200,000 building plans for the City of
Leicester and surrounding urban areas, for example, including many
thousands for both the original construction of new industrial buildings,
and then all significant subsequent alterations to these.

Come back to me off-list if you would like an example or two.


Patrick Boylan

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On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Diane L Oswald wrote:

>
> As an extension of my research on fire insurance maps, I am looking for
> museums with collections
> of industrial plans (I am aware of the Henry Ford Museum's collection of
> Manufacturers Mutuals and
> the Philadelphia Free Library's collection of Hexamer General Surveys).
>
> If your museum's holdings include any original industrial plans, or if
> you know of any library or
> museum where such a collection is kept, please e-mail the name of the
> publisher, date
> and city of publication and the whereabouts of the collection to:
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Thank you,
>
> Diane L. Oswald
> Author: "Fire Insurance Maps, Their History and Applications,"
> ISBN: 0-9659698-0-0, Lacewing Press, 15889 Woodlake Drive,
> College Station, TX 77845  Post-paid $11.95,  Pages 102.
>
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