Fire insurance plans now available on Archnet

Plans for Alexandria, Cairo, and Istanbul

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Fire insurance plans of Alexandria, Cairo, and Constantinople (sic), are now available on Archnet. The plans show building footprints, usages, and materials. These plans were issued by Charles E. Goad, a London-based civil engineer, between 1898 and 1905.

There are 104 sheets in total.  The individual sheets can be downloaded on Archnet. Geo-referenced versions of the plans can be viewed in the Harvard Geospatial Repository.

The plans were a gift from the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT.