Map of the Sunshine Highway. (Map of the Sunshine Highway: Showing Every City, Town, Village and Hamlet Throughout Its Entire Length) 1915

Old map of Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, United States of America, Utah, Washington.

-Canada border in Washington State to Nogales, Arizona, on the U.S.--Mexico border, a distance of 2,248 miles (3,618 kilometers). The notes and table in the lower left 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.

Created by E. E. Jenkins, John C. Mulford, National Highways Association, Sunshine Highway Association in 1915.

• Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• "Scale 1:5,000,000"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
• Original resource extent: 1 map : color ; 56 x 14 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.

Map Tags

1915

Arizona

California

E. E. Jenkins

Highway Planning

Idaho

John C. Mulford

Map

National Highways Association

Nevada

Roads

Sunshine Highway Association

United States Of America

Utah

Washington