Map Map of the Canada--Kansas City--Gulf Road. Map of the Canada-Kansas City-Gulf Road: Showing Every City, Town, Village and Hamlet Throughout its Entire Length
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Title
- Map of the Canada--Kansas City--Gulf Road.
Other Title
- Map of the Canada-Kansas City-Gulf Road: Showing Every City, Town, Village and Hamlet Throughout its Entire Length
Summary
- The National Highways Association (NHA) was established in 1911 to promote the development of an improved national road network in the United States. Under the slogan "Good roads for everyone!" the NHA advocated the building and permanent maintenance by the federal government of a system of 50,000 miles of highways. This map, issued by the NHA in 1915, shows the Canada--Kansas City--Gulf Road, proposed by the Canada--Kansas City--Gulf Road Association and endorsed by the NHA. The projected route runs from Duluth, Minnesota, to Cameron, Louisiana, a distance of 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers). The notes and table at the bottom indicate the numbers of states, counties, and cities of different sizes traversed by the route and the population expected to be served. Besides issuing brochures and circulars aimed at convincing citizens of the need for a national road system, the NHA was a prolific producer of maps. Cartographic work was done at an office in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, where approximately 40 people were employed on the property of Charles Henry Davis (1865--1951), president and cofounder of the NHA. Davis believed that these maps would be helpful to a national highways commission that he hoped would be established and that they would assist the states in integrating their roads into a national system. Congress never embraced the plan put forward by the NHA, but the organization and its maps helped to promote the cause of a national road network
Names
- Canada-Kansas City-Gulf Road Association Contributor.
- Hooton, M. Cartographer.
- Mulford, John C. Cartographer.
- National Highways Association Creator.
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : National Highways Association, 1915-10.
Headings
- - United States of America--Arkansas
- - United States of America--Iowa
- - United States of America--Kansas
- - United States of America--Louisiana
- - United States of America--Minnesota
- - United States of America--Missouri
- - 1915
- - Highway planning
- - Roads
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Scale 1:5,000,000"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 1 map : color ; 63 x 13 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
- - Content in English.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021668526
Online Format
- compressed data
- image