This exhibit discusses the art of cartography and the presentation of roads and highways in maps. Instead of map cover art, I look at the roads themselves - the "Inside of the Map."
What's here:
- a retrospective of Connecticut's official tourist maps from 1930 to the present.
- Massachusetts Route 517? Yes, in the 1920s; see scans of a 1926 Essex County (Mass.) Map.
If you're interested in map covers, oil company history, and so on, visit the Roadmap Collectors Association site; you'll find map lists, dealer links, pictures, stories, and more.
Other pages similar to this, with road map commentary, include:
- Mark D. O'Neil's Connecticut Map Covers; small pix of official covers from circa 1930 to the present
- Darren Stuart Embry's Map Collection (more than just a list of maps, though)
- Chris Bessert's home page; see the Sample Maps frame.
- Illinois DOT's History of Mapping; cartography of state, county, and city maps, along with cover scans
- Harold Cramer's Roadmaps of Pennsylvania; detailed history, some inside scans (though most are too small to distinguish individual features)
- Joel Windmiller's California Official Map 2000; compares Sacramento inset with previous (1994) edition (and Caltrans apparently hasn't given up on some Sac-area freeway proposals)
- Yale University's Hitting the Road: Road Map Collection (if only Yale would scan and post all their road maps...)
- The University of Maine/Osher Map Library's Road Maps: The American Way exhibit. Very well done; history, commentary, and over 100 scans, of map covers and the good parts inside.
- Memepool's Cartography section collects some interesting links.
Roads:
Connecticut ||
3-digit Interstates ||
Interchanges ||
SignMaker ||
TrippyDrive '71 ||
Me and The Roads
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