Automobile Club of Seattle Contributor Automobile Club of Southern California Contributor Inyo Good Road Club Contributor Jenkins, E. E. Cartographer Mulford, John C. Cartographer National Highways Association Creator Pacific Highway Association Contributor cartographic map cartographic image xx 1915 monographic Washington, D.C National Highways Association 1915-09 eng

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1 online resource. The National Highways Association (NHA) was established in 1911 to promote the development of an improved national road network in the United States. Under the slogan "Good roads for everyone!" the NHA advocated the building and permanent maintenance by the federal government of a system of 50,000 miles (some 80,500 kilometers) of highways. This map, issued by the NHA in 1915, shows the Pacific Highway, proposed by the Pacific Highway Association and endorsed by the NHA. The projected route runs from Blaine, Washington, to San Diego, California, a distance of 1,700 miles (2,735 kilometers). The notes and tables in the lower right indicate the numbers of states, counties, and cities of different sizes traversed by the route and the population expected to be served. Besides issuing brochures and circulars aimed at convincing citizens of the need for a national road system, the NHA was a prolific producer of maps. Cartographic work was done at an office in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, where approximately 40 people were employed on the property of Charles Henry Davis (1865--1951), president and cofounder of the NHA. Davis believed that these maps would be helpful to a national highways commission that he hoped would be established and that they would assist the states in integrating their roads into a national system. Congress never embraced the plan put forward by the NHA, but the organization and its maps helped to promote the cause of a national road network. Title devised, in English, by Library staff. "Scale 1:5,000,000"--Note extracted from World Digital Library. Original resource extent: 1 map : color ; 50 x 15 centimeters. Original resource at: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. Content in English. Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions. 1915 Highway planning Roads United States of America California United States of America Oregon United States of America Washington 625 912 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.11541 2021668510 DLC 210708 20250607110301.8 22132066 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng