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General Drafting Company, Inc. with New Jersey Bell Telephone Company., Visit Faraway Friends Tonight (1953), 1953

Highway map of the United States with telephone rates/coverage. Similar to General Drafting Company's 1950 road map, but with insets/features solely…

Tags: communications, highways, Tourism, twentieth century, United States

Chris Lund, National Film Board, Trans-Canada Highway (1952), 1952

Couple consulting a road map in front of the Trans-Canada highway sign, intersection of highways 15 & 17, Ottawa, Ontario (July 1952). NFB still by…

Tags: Canada, highways, twentieth century

Southern California Tourist Association
Cartography, Claude G. Putnam - Research, Arthur Woodward., Ride the roads to romance along the Golden Coast and thru the sunshine empire of Southern California (1963), 1963

A lively and highly artistic pictorial map of Southern California, on sheet 56x88.5, border with various attractive vignettes. Folded into self…

Tags: California, highways, Tourism

General Drafting Co. Inc.
, Trip - planning map of the United States (1950): Know Your America, 1950

"The Heritage of every American reaches across a continent: Trip - planning map of the United States"
Text Page/ Map: Trip - planning map of the…

Tags: highways, Tourism, twentieth century, United States

Nova Scotia government, Nova Scotia Relief Map at Amherst, Nova Scotia (ca. 1930s), 1930s

A physical map presenting the province to tourists arriving by car. Part of an interwar project of highway-based tourism.

Tags: highways, Nova Scotia, Tourism, twentieth century