Map of the National Roosevelt Midland Trail : "the Main Street of America", showing every city, town, village, and hamlet throughout its entire length and connections with a 150,000-mile system of national highways proposed by the Roosevelt Midland Trail Association as a transcontinental highway to be built and forever maintained by the United States government and also advocated by the National Highways Association
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- 1924
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Second edition Oct. 1924
Issued under joint auspices of the Society of American Military Engineers, National Aeronautic Association of U.S.A., Worlds Board of Aeronautical Commissioners, Inc., and Association of the Army of the United States.; Includes: Profile of the National Roosevelt Midland Trail pioneer highway airport route showing elevations above sea level of the principal cities and and mileage.; Inset: [Pictorial map of West Coast noting highway system "lines of defense"]; "Highway airports," in upper margin.
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 (some 80,500 kilometers) of highways. This system was to be composed of six main national highways, 13 trunk national highways, and 40 link highways. The link highways, the NHA explained, would connect “the Mains and Trunks” and reach out “in all directions until the country as a whole is covered with almost a spider-web tracery of highways.” This map issued by the NHA in 1913 shows the proposed system, with colors used to denote the different categories of highways. 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,
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- National Highways Association
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- Airports -- United States -- Location -- Maps
Roads -- United States -- Maps
National Roosevelt Midland Trail -- Maps - Type
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- Map of the National Roosevelt Midland Trail : "the Main Street of America", showing every city, town, village, and hamlet throughout its entire length and connections with a 150,000-mile system of national highways proposed by the Roosevelt Midland Trail Association as a transcontinental highway to be built and forever maintained by the United States government and also advocated by the National Highways Association. 1924. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/7467. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- (1924) Map of the National Roosevelt Midland Trail : "the Main Street of America", showing every city, town, village, and hamlet throughout its entire length and connections with a 150,000-mile system of national highways proposed by the Roosevelt Midland Trail Association as a transcontinental highway to be built and forever maintained by the United States government and also advocated by the National Highways Association. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/7467
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