31 Copies of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS MAGAZINE from the 1940s & '50's - Great Collection

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1940s - 1950s31 Copies of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS MAGAZINEOutstanding stories, photography and art work from 60 to 70 years agoA great collection of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS MAGAZINE.Arizona Highways is a magazine that contains travelogues and artistic photographs related to the state of Arizona. It is published monthly in Phoenix by a unit of the Arizona Department of Transportation.The magazine began in July 1921 by the Arizona Highway Department (now the Arizona Department of Transportation) as a 10-page pamphlet designed to promote "the development of good roads throughout the state." Publication of the pamphlet ended on December 30, 1922, after nine issues. The publication was relaunched on April 15, 1925 as a regular magazine. In addition to the engineering articles, cartoons and travelogues were also included in the early issues. Over the next two decades the magazine reduced, and then stopped, inclusion of the road engineering articles and dedicated itself to the present format of travel tales, historical stories, and humor about the state of Arizona, always enhanced by the now-legendary photography.In 1946, the famous photographer Ansel Adams started to contribute prints for the magazine. Famous photographs include Arches, North Court, Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona, 1968 and Saguaro Cactus, Sunrise, Arizona, 1942. Since this read more

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