Rand McNally – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Thu, 20 Apr 2023 23:07:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Rand McNally – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 The Rand McNally Road Atlas at 100 https://www.maproomblog.com/2023/04/the-rand-mcnally-road-atlas-at-100/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 22:42:02 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1814070 More]]> Rand McNally Road Atlas: 100th Anniversary (cover and sample pages)I spent an astonishing amount of my childhood just staring at an out-of-date copy of the Rand McNally Road Atlas. I suspect not a few of you did the same. The Atlas is still being published; the company argues that they provide a better understanding of route options (it gives the big picture to a fault) and serve as a backup when GPS or cell service fails. In fact, a special 100th anniversary edition of the Atlas is being published next month. It including some retrospective features looking back at its 100 years of publication and comes in the usual formats: standard, large scale (more pages) and easy to read (less detail). Not nearly as nostalgic as that retrospective book of atlas covers that came out in 2018, but then it’s just a collector’s edition of a working atlas.

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]]> 1814070 A Collection of Rand McNally Road Atlas Covers https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/07/a-collection-of-rand-mcnally-road-atlas-covers/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 14:39:11 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1785841 More]]> The Rand McNally Road Atlas has long been a staple of North American travellers. The company—still around—is celebrating the atlas’s 95th edition by putting out a retrospective volume of the road atlas’s covers: American Journey: A Treasury of Rand McNally Road Atlas Covers (Rand McNally, 3 June) is a slim hardcover volume: 96 pages, enough for one page per edition. CNN Travel has coverage. [WMS]

]]> 1785841 The Newberry Library’s Rand McNally Photos https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/06/the-newberry-librarys-rand-mcnally-photos/ Wed, 08 Jun 2016 23:21:53 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=2169 The Newberry Library has uploaded some 400 photographs from their Rand McNally and Company collection. The photos, most of which date from the mid-20th century, chronicle various aspects of the company’s  mapmaking business. [WMS]

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