| Chicago - Lake Geneva: A 100-Year Road Trip: Retracing the Route of H. Sargent Michaels' 1905 Photographic Guide for Motorists Contributor(s): Chicago Map Society (Compiled by), Karrow, Robert W. (Introduction by), Stroeve, Wilbert (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 091102882X ISBN-13: 9780911028829 Publisher: Newberry Library OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2007 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Technology & Engineering | Cartography - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 917.7 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8.4" W x 10.9" (1.10 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: In 1905 Homer Sargent Michaels, an automobile agent based in Chicago, developed an unusual solution to one of the thorniest problems facing early motorists: how to find one's way from one city to another along the poorly marked rural roads of the time. Michaels's solution was to take photographs of every major intersection or turning point along a given route. The resulting books--ancestors of today's digital in-car navigation systems--were remarkably useful, but few copies survive. Now the Chicago Map Society, in collaboration with the Newberry Library, has compiled a new edition of one of Michaels's 1905 guides showing the route from Chicago to Lake Geneva, a resort town in southern Wisconsin. This new edition reproduces the entire guide, along with brief explanations and new photographs of the same locations today, as well as an introduction by the Newberry Library's curator of maps, Robert W. Karrow Jr. Chicago to Lake Geneva: A 100-Year Road Trip is a stellar presentation of a historical artifact--and a fascinating drive down memory lane. |
Contributor Bio(s): Akerman, James R.: - James R. Akerman is director of the Newberry Library s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography and editor of Cartographies of Travel and Navigation and coeditor of Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, both published by the University of Chicago Press. |