For example, the Photo-Auto Maps begins at Chicago’s New Southern Hotel at Michigan Avenue and 13th Street, which it describes as ‘the very best hotel in Chicago for automobile tourists. Red barns and wind mill on right.’ Rand McNally & Company. Such as step number 27 in northern Indiana: ‘Turn RIGHT, South. See for example, Scarborough, Complete Road Atlas.Ģ4. See, for example, the map of the Lincoln Highway in Akerman, ‘Selling Maps, Selling Highways,’ 83 also, the map of the National Old Trails Road in Akerman, ‘Twentieth-Century American Road Maps,’ 176 additionally, a map of ‘The Pasear,’ prepared by the Inyo Good Roads Club in 1915.Ģ3. Buerglener, ‘Creating the American Automobile Driver,’ 288–9.Ģ2. Bement, ‘What the Lincoln Highway,’ 1915.ġ7. Porter to the Lincoln Highway, 10 June 1914.ġ6. One Pennsylvania manufacturer declined to donate to the Lincoln Highway because his ‘ “patriotic inclinations” received a little set-back’ in 1864 during the Civil War when he inherited from his ‘dear Uncle Sam a par of crutches, after serving him for all-most three years.’ James E. Morehead, Governor of Nebraska, to the Lincoln Highway Association, 26 August 1914.ġ5. Pardington, Vice-President of Lincoln Highway Association, 19 June 1914 Governor of Indiana to Henry Joy of the Lincoln Highway Association, 21 August 1914 John H.
Akerman, ‘Twentieth-Century American Road Maps,’ 175.ġ2. See ‘Lincoln Highway Association Subscription.’ġ1. The Lincoln Highway Association, for example, charged a one-time US$5 membership fee, and then expected members to pay the Association 1% of their yearly gross sales. Akerman, ‘Selling Maps, Selling Highways’ Bay, ‘The Beginning’ and Buerglener, ‘Creating the American Automobile Driver.’ġ0. For more on engineers’ growing authority in early twentieth century America see Layton, Revolt of the Engineers, and Jordan, Machine-Age Ideology.ĩ.
Also see Seiler, Republic of Drivers Packer, Mobility Without Mayhem Akerman, ‘Twentieth-Century American Road Maps’ Akerman, ‘Selling Maps, Selling Highways’ Seely, Building the American Highway System Bay, ‘The Beginning’ and Highway Planning Survey, A History of Wisconsin.Ĩ. See especially Seiler, Republic of Drivers, and Akerman, ‘Twentieth-Century American Road Maps’.ħ. Other scholars have remarked upon the freedom that automobiles seemingly granted American drivers see Friedman, The Republic of Choice, 55 Gudis, Buyways, 41 McShane, Down the Asphalt Path, 148 Mumford, The Highway and the City, 234 Norton, Fighting Traffic, part III and Volti, ‘A Century of Automobility,’ 667.Ħ. As Cotten Seiler has pointed out, behind the wheel and on the highway, Americans felt themselves to be ‘unfettered and self-directing’ agents, i.e. Generally defined, ‘automobility’ refers to people’s use of the cars in solving everyday transportation needs as well as the car’s creation of those needs. See Swift, The Big Roads Fein, Paving the Way and Seely, Building the American Highway System.Ĥ. I place myself in this second camp, because as Rodgers has noted, the administration of Franklin Roosevelt is best understood as a ‘culmination … of a generation of proposals and ideas’ that had circulated among a transatlantic network of Progressive reformers ( Atlantic Crossings, 415).ģ. Rodgers and Doug Rossinow, describe it as a much longer movement lasting from roughly the 1880s to the early 1940s. Some historians, such as Bradley Rice and Alan Dawley, limit the Progressive Movement to the first two decades of the twentieth century. Indeed, despite its very real legacy, the Progressive Era has nevertheless been one of the trickiest periods for historians to delineate and characterize. I am aware that the period this paper examines, 1917–1926, would be considered by some historians to be outside the closing years of the Progressive Era. ‘Can Lincoln Highway be Wiped off Map?’, The Lincoln Highway Forum 6, no.