Series 13: Travel guides and serial text publications, 1960-1987
Scope and Contents
Travel guides and serial publications mostly issued for oil companies and automobile travel clubs. Promotional guidebooks, booklets, and magazines issued for American Airlines, Chevron Oil, Fodor's Travel Publications, Hertz Rent-A-Car, Mobil Oil, Philippine Airlines, Shell Oil, Standard Oil, Sunoco, Sunset Magazine, Texaco, and Tide Water Oil. Primarily travel magazines and guidebooks with descriptive text and very few maps. Incomplete holdings of serial publications include American Scene (American Airlines, 1965-1967), Chevron USA (1969-1987), Fodor Shell Travel Guides (1966), Hertz No. 1 (1976), Mobil Travel Guides (1960-1961), Odyssey (Gulf Auto Club, 1978-1987), Ramada Inn Directory and Atlas (1974), Time-Life Library of America (unbound book sections or fascicles, 1967), various oil company Touring Guides (1965-1972), West Coast Theatrical Directory (and other guidebooks issued solely under Gousha’s imprint, 1967-1974), and assorted other titles.
Dates
- Creation: 1960-1987
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).
Arrangement
Materials arranged by client name.
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
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