This fascinating early automobile map promotes a transcontinental highway from New York to California that bypasses the larger cities of Chicago and Denver, and instead travels through Las Vegas, Nevada, a town of only 3,000 at the time. Finding that “Highway Airports are of National and International Importance,” the map promotes highways connected with airports, with a banner “America First in the Air/ Highway Airports Should be Established Twenty-Five Miles Apart…” Features illustrations of a highway airport, Pikes Peak, and a long profile at bottom showing the elevation change along the route. Text at bottom markets the highway as "Part of a System of National Highways to be Built and Forever Maintained by the United States Government." The National Highways Association was an early and effective advocate for a federally funded auto road network. Created by John C. Mulford, Chief Cartographer for the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway Association.

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Condition: B

Issued folding with light soiling, staining, and a couple of pencil notations. There are numerous fold separations closed on verso with old tape and some small losses mostly at the fold junctions.