National Highway Association Wall Map-1929 Oregon Trail

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United States Touring Map-1929. Produced by the 1) National Highways Association; 2) The Automoble Club of America and 3) Keystone Automobile Club. Thirty one other highway associations are listed. It is a wall map and it is huge 36" x 54". Blank on the back side. This particular map besides promotong "Good Roads Everyw" features the Oregon Trail and the Oregon Trail Memorial Association Inc. 95 Madison Avenue New York City. T is a solid blue line on the map which "represents the Oregon Trail in 1852". Then t is a dark blue tint representing counties served and a lighter blue tint which represents adjoining counties. Besides the fantastic map showing roads, towns, national parks, national forests, Indian reservations, rivers, lakes, irrigation projects the edges of the map constantly call for better roads. T is a proposed 50,000 mile National Industrial Military Road System map in conformance to the "Principles of Road Building" of Senator Coleman Dupont and part of S.1900 introduced by Senator George Moses, [predating the Interstates] This would be a four-way road, two lanes each side, one for slow trucks, one for faster cars The map also advocates the bill by comparing it to the building of the Panama Canal ie. more executive authority needed. Until a national system is developed the Association advocating the Four Fold System, read more

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