Road atlas sheets, 1972-1975
Scope and Contents
Approximately 4,000 unbound road atlas sheets. Designed for compiling custom-made atlases of single journeys, personalized for automobile club customers with recommended routes highlighted by hand. Assembled-to-order from stock sheets of road maps, descriptive text, and travel directories, with travel routes later highlighted by hand. Mostly Allstate Trip Plan sheets (with bound publisher’s dummies for 1965 and 1966). Includes miscellaneous atlas sheets for Allied Auto Club, Amoco Motor Club, Bank of America, Chevron Travel Service, Douglas Oil, Honolulu Freight Service, Montgomery Ward Automobile Club, Philipps Touring Service, and Sanborn’s (Mexico). Also includes stock editions of Gousha atlas sheets without client-publisher names. For Conoco Touraide atlas sheets see Series 4.
Dates
- Creation: 1972-1975
Creator
- From the Collection: H.M. Gousha Company (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The H.M. Gousha collection is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
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