Documentary list

The sources,
one by one

Every fact on the site is in at least two authoritative sources. Here are the sources, with the use made of them and their limit. Where two sources do not agree the primary source prevails; if there is none, the disputed detail is not written.

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Who is behind them

Where the sources come from

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The number beside each name is how many of the site’s sources come from there. A click on the name shows those sources in the list below.

What type of document

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Diagram

Every source can be reached

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• Direct link to the document
• Source record, with who holds it and where it can be consulted

Maps, for dating

Dating a photograph with a map

Matching a photograph with the right map confirms the street, the building, the stage of construction. But one constraint decides everything else: the area only became part of Milan in 1923.

The City plans of 1884 and 1910 do not reach this far: the area was outside the boundary. For the earlier period you need the cadastres and the maps of the Istituto Geografico Militare, which surveyed the independent municipalities. From 1930 the area enters the City’s mapping.

Photographs

Plans and diagrams, in the collection

Plans and diagrams in the collection, each with its record.

The recommended sequence

Four steps, in this order

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Where the maps are

Sources, access, rights

The map thresholds

Two hundred years, in jumps

A dated map is what lets you say whether a house was already there. Decades pass between one threshold and the next: in those gaps you do not date.

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Where it continues

• The ten rules of the method, in Method.
• The state of the research, in Research.
• The plates in the catalogue, in Photographs.

Sources for this page

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The full directory of official sources, with the selection criteria, is in Method.

What this page rests on

Every fact is checked against at least two independent sources and, where one exists, the official source.