Almost as soon as his discharge papers arrived, and guided by his dream of a musical career, ex-marine and budding songwriter Bobby Troup and his new wife Cynthia bundled into a green 1941 Buick convertible to leave Lancaster, Pennsylvania for Los An...
Road maps show history in the context of the land and are invaluable in recording the changes wrought by the automobile. Furthermore, some road map covers depicted contemporary events of historical note: a 1928 Tydol issue depicted the Byrd Antarctic...
When the start of the twentieth century brought the automobile, it soon became evident that the existing bicycle and railroad maps would not serve well for this new form of transportation. Color overprints of auto roads on these maps caused cartograp...
The citizens of the United States have perhaps been the most mobile people in the world. After the Civil War, railways dominated long-distance transportation until the development of bus companies and commercial airlines in the 1930s. Personal mobili...
The early means for showing the auto road tended to be descriptive in words and pictures. They seem not to have benefited from the more graphic and comprehensive bird's eye view, of the bicycle and topographical maps that preceded them. But, the auto...
Road maps from an earlier day were a visual celebration of life on the motor trail. Their illustrations portrayed Americans, joy-filled and carefree, behind the wheel of a car: pushing seventy-five beneath an infinite azure sky, downshifting through ...
Oil companies carefully cultivated the brand loyalty of motorists by offering them a number of services. For a brief period in the 1930s, several oil companies posted maps at their stations - in special installations - displaying weekly updates of ro...
The motor car . . . alluring and fascinating in its magic powers of carrying us so quickly in the wake of our wishes . . . the typical recreation of a restless age. A. B. Filson Young, The Complete Motorist, 1905. From its beginnings, automobile art ...
This website was designed and prepared, from Donald Johnson's text, by Matthew Edney with the assistance of Tami Christopher and Daryl Sasser.Exhibition Proper: OML Curator's CommentsWith Charting Neptune's Realm, the staff of the Osher Map Library h...
Contrary to what one might expect after centuries of exploration, the charting of Neptune's Realm is not complete. It is still an ongoing process; indeed, there is an explosion in the amount and kind of new information now available. Up until the mid...
