Dakin Fire Insurance Maps
The production of fire insurance plans of North American cities was dominated by two companies, the Sanborn Map Company of New York and the Charles E. Goad Company of London. The stories of other publishers, for the most part, have not been adequately told. The West, includ[ing] Hawaii, had a number of individuals and institutions which produced insurance plans. One of the more successful of them was the Dakin Publishing Company of San Francisco. Dakin was in existence from about 1885 until the early 1960's, and actively produced insurance maps from its beginning until the second decade of the 20th Century.*
* Hoehn, R. Philip Dakin Publishing Company and its Fire Insurance Maps Information Bulletin Western Association of Map Libraries, June 1976, v.7, no.3 Read more
