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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)
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.
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By 1930, Rand McNally had two major road map competitors, General Drafting and Gousha, the latter of which was founded by a former Rand McNally sales representative. The Rand McNally Auto Chum, later to become the ubiquitous Rand McNally Road Atlas, debuted in 1924. The first full-color edition was published in 1960 and in 1993, it became fully ...
William Henry Rand (May 2, 1828 – June 20, 1915) was an American printer and co-founder of the Rand McNally publishing company. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts , and as a young man was an apprentice at his brothers' print shop in Boston .
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 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.
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 .