For a clear and comprehensive view of the how and why? of insurance maps,
see Helena Wright's excellent article "Insurance Mapping and Industrial
Archeology" in IA, Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, Volume
9, number 1, pp 1-18, 1983.
Pat Martin
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Patrick E. Martin, Associate Professor of Archaeology
Editor of IA, Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University
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