Touring map of the Custer Battlefield Hiway / sponsored by the Custer Battlefield Hiway Association and National Highways Association ; John C. Mulford, chief cartographer, C. C. Faunce, cartographer
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- 1925
- Description
Elevation shown by spot heights.; "This map shows part of the system of 250,000 miles of national highways advocated by the National Highways Association."; "National Highways vs. Panama Canal."; "America first in the air."; Includes table: "Profile of Custer Battlefield Hiway from Glacier Park to Des Moines showing elevation above sea level of the principal cities, also mileage."
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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- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- 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
- Type
- image
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- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
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- Touring map of the Custer Battlefield Hiway / sponsored by the Custer Battlefield Hiway Association and National Highways Association ; John C. Mulford, chief cartographer, C. C. Faunce, cartographer. 1925. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/7452. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1925) Touring map of the Custer Battlefield Hiway / sponsored by the Custer Battlefield Hiway Association and National Highways Association ; John C. Mulford, chief cartographer, C. C. Faunce, cartographer. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/7452
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/7452>.