The Map Inside

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.

Other pages similar to this, with road map commentary, include:

• Roadmap Collectors Association
• Hitting the Road: selections and scans from Douglas Yorke's 1996 book Hitting the Road: The Art of the American Road Map
• 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 portfolio includes some excellent custom-made road maps.
• Harold Cramer's Roadmaps of Pennsylvania; detailed history, some inside scans (though most are too small to distinguish individual features)
• The Roads category of the Map Room Blog