Iowa road association collection, bulk 1913-1925.

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Iowa road association collection, bulk 1913-1925.

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Contains administrative records, correspondence, maps, registration applications, road marker designs, advertisements, road guides, brochures, newsletters, pamphlets, blueprints, road guides, photographs and secondary source material related to the registration applications from 65 road associations to the Iowa Highway Commission. Some correspondence contains detailed instructions regarding the process of qualification. Documents routes within Iowa as well as routes throughout the United States.

1 cubic foot (5 boxes) + 1 cubic foot (5 boxes) supplementary material.

Iowa Department. of Transportation, Iowa DOT Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6964763

Iowa Department. of Transportation, Iowa DOT Library

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Iowa. Highway Commission

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Established in 1913, the Iowa Highway Commission accepted applications from road associations registering roads and auto trails to foster and organize automobile travel in Iowa. To register roads, each association submitted a completed registration application form, a five-dollar fee, a road marker design, and a map indicating the route. In conjunction with the National Highways Association, the Iowa Highway Commission and other good roads movement groups, road associations administered auto tra...

National Highways Association

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David Hull Holmes was active in civic matters, and was chairman of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce highway committee that secured the first section of concrete paving on the road from Boulder to Denver. Holmes' obituary, from which the biographical sketch here was drawn, appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera on 20 January 1967. From the description of National Highways Preliminary Map of the State of Colorado. 1916. (Boulder Public Library). WorldCat record id...

Lincoln Highway Association

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Association was formed in 1913 by Carl G. Fisher (President of the Prest-O-Lite Co., founder of the Indianapolis Speedway), along with Frank A. Seiberling (President of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.) and Henry B. Joy (President of Packard Motor Co.), in Indianapolis, Indiana, and later, Detroit, Michigan. The organization was made up of representatives from the automobile, tire, and cement industries, with the goal of planning, funding, constructing, and promoting the first transcontinental highw...