Map National Highways Association Map of the State of Delaware. National Highways Association Map of the State of Delaware: Showing Three Hundred Miles of National Highways Proposed by the National Highways Association
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Title
- National Highways Association Map of the State of Delaware.
Other Title
- National Highways Association Map of the State of Delaware: Showing Three Hundred Miles of National Highways Proposed by the National Highways Association
Summary
- 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 1914, shows 300 miles (483 kilometers) of highways proposed for Delaware and their connections to the adjoining states of Pennsylvania and Maryland. No bridge across the Delaware River as yet linked New Jersey and Delaware. 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.
Names
- National Highways Association Creator.
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : National Highways Association, 1914-03.
Headings
- - United States of America--Delaware
- - 1914
- - Highway planning
- - Roads
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Scale 1:1,000,000"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 1 map : color ; 20 x 14 centimeters on sheet 26 x 18 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.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021668511
Online Format
- compressed data
- image