this is a sanborn fire insurance map. sanborn maps are created for cities throughout the united states. for birmingham they date back to the 1880s and come up to the present. they're created for a variety of purposes, especially for fire departments, real estate companies, insurance companies local government offices will have copies of sanborns. this pirl one is volume i of the birmingham set that covers the 1920s to the 1950s. sanborns are different from street maps in that they show the buildings on each block. and then when we look at this page, we see here, 16th street baptist church, which was the site of one of the last racially motivated bombings here in birming happen. -- in birmingham. the birmingham civil rights institute would be just across the street where many of the demonstrations were held is die diagonally across the map. 16th baptist church is identified with the term used at that time color, telling us it was an african-american church an african-american congregation. you'll see that with other church