American Directories through 1860 (MICROFORMS E154.5 .A64). Collection based on Bibliography of American Directories Through 1860 (REF E154.5 .S64).
On microfiche. Thousands of city directories dating from the first in Philadelphia in 1785. Millions of individual and business names. Alexandria, Wellsburg, Augusta, Richmond, Norfolk, Wythe County, Washington, D.C., Winchester, Wheeling (W.Va.), Petersburg, Staunton, Fredericksburg, and Portsmouth are represented in this collection.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Virginia (MICROFORMS G3881 .G475 svar .S3 REELS 1-18). Reproduced from original copies in the Library of Congress.
Maps produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company showing the location of homes as well as commercial and industrial buildings. The first maps date from 1867. Swem Library has maps for Virginia only.
About the project (from the Library of Virginia): "The Virginia Colonial Records Project was established in the 1950s by the Virginia Historical Society, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the University of Virginia Library, and Library of Virginia to reconstitute the archive of Virginia's colonial history--a documentary record decimated by war and fire during the Old Dominion's first three centuries.
Between 1955 and 1985, project agents visited more than one hundred libraries and archives in Great Britain, Ireland, and France to survey their collections for Virginia-related documents. Agents reported their findings about pertinent records on Survey Reports from which the project ordered microfilm of many original documents. The project has generated 14,704 of these Survey Reports (which vary in length from one to more than one hundred pages) and acquired 963 reels of microfilmed documents.
The Electronic Index contains more than five-hundred thousand (500,000) personal- name and ship-name entries. The index also can be searched by repository name, document title, and Survey Report number. Keyword and combination (Boolean) searches are available, too.
For more information and to search the index visit the Virginia Colonial Records Project
