https://fims.historicalinfo.com/Account/Login.aspx I used this database within a genealogy library. This link may not take you to the database I used.
I tried this database to look at a town that a grandparent was raised in.
WHAT CAN YOU GET FROM A FIRE INSURANCE MAP? Detail.
I discovered the world they lived in in 1908.
I saw the streets that appear on the 1910 census. Streets they mentioned living on and also shopping on. I saw the hotels for immigrants, the brewing company, the Slavonic Church, the school funded by a robber-baron, a skating rink!, foundries, and the ethnic immigrant club, and so very many churches.
Each map starts with a LISTING of STREETS and COMPANIES.
I can imagine a salesperson negotiating insurance with each of these places.
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