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1926-1927 Automobile Blue Book (also covers New York state): 1926 map is before U.S. Highways were designated and 1927 map is after - Polaron (talk · contribs) 1939 Rand McNally (Sunoco) (everything east of Chicago and north of TN/NC) 25or6to4 ( talk · contribs )
A 1929 map of New England produced by Gousha for Gulf Oil. Rand McNally's first road map, the New Automobile Road Map of New York City & Vicinity, was published in 1904. Gousha was founded in 1926 by former Rand McNally employees. General Drafting was founded in 1909.
He had coined the term to refer to small, forgotten, out-of-the-way roads connecting rural America, which were drawn in blue on the Rand McNally road atlases of the time. He outfitted his van with a bunk, a camping stove, a portable toilet and a copy of Walt Whitman 's Leaves of Grass and John Neihardt 's Black Elk Speaks .
A Rand McNally map appended to the 1914 edition of The New Student's Reference Work. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways. One of its cartographers, John Brink, invented a system that was first published in 1917 on a map of Peoria, Illinois. In addition to creating maps with numbered roads ...
Lee Highway logo from 1925 Rand McNally Auto Trails Map. The Lee Highway was a national auto trail in the United States , connecting New York City [ dubious – discuss ] and San Francisco , California, via the South and Southwest .
A printer by trade, he moved to Chicago in 1858 and got a job in a print shop owned by William H. Rand at a wage of $9 per week. In 1873, McNally and William H. Rand incorporated Rand, McNally & Co. With William H. Rand as President and McNally as Vice President. [2] Rand, McNally & Co. becoming one of the largest and best-known map publishers ...
A multi-day road trip through New England helped one woman learn how to be present and let go. Plus, a great fall travel itinerary for Massachusetts.
U.S. Route 5 (US 5) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway running through the New England states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont.Significant cities along the route include New Haven, Connecticut; Hartford, Connecticut; and Springfield, Massachusetts.