Barlow Insurance Surveys
Scope and Content Note
Barlow's Insurance Surveys were published between circa 1870-1896. The site-specific surveys of industrial properties in the eastern United States and Canada were produced by Nelson Barlow and his chief assistant John Bancroft of New York, NY. The single sheet surveys include a page of text and an isometric view and plan. The surveys describe buildings, special features, and available fire protection. They include notes about the business owners and the goods produced. Updated surveys were produced as the business activities and facilities changed. The 20 Vermont surveys in this collection are photocopies of originals held by the American Textile History Museum (formerly the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum).
Dates
- 1873-1893
Creator
- Barlow Company (Organization)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Manuscripts.
Extent
2 Linear Feet (2 oversize map folders)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Barlow's Insurance Surveys were published between circa 1870-1896. The site-specific surveys of industrial properties include a page of text and an isometric view and plan. The surveys describe buildings, special features, and available fire protection. They include notes about the business owners and the goods produced. Updated surveys were produced as the business activities and facilities changed.
Location
Silver Special Collections, Billings Library.
- Title
- Guide to the Barlow Insurance Surveys
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2010-07-07
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the University of Vermont Libraries, Special Collections Repository
Silver Special Collections Library
48 University Place, Room B201
Burlington Vermont 05405 U.S.A. US
(802) 656-2138
(802) 656-4038 (Fax)
uvmsc@uvm.edu
