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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.
1926 Rand McNally road atlas - 420Traveler (talk · contribs) 1930 Rand McNally road atlas - 420Traveler (talk · contribs) 1939 Rand McNally's Special Road Atlas American Lumbermen's - 420Traveler (talk · contribs) 1946 Shell Map of United States - TCN7JM (talk · contribs) 1947 Rand McNally road atlas - Fredddie (talk · contribs)
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.
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 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 ...
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.