Hupmobile United America Tour, 1918

This map, issued in 1918 by the National Highways Association (NHA), shows the route of the United America Tour undertaken by the Hupp Motor Car Corporation, under the auspices of the American Automobile Association and the NHA, “for the purpose of pioneering a new good road that would include all capitals and major cities of the U.S.” The tour began in Washington, DC, on August 28, 1916, and was completed, after visits to the capitals of all of the then-48 states, in the same city on January 9, 1917. The total distance covered was 19,861 miles (31,963 kilometers). The NHA was established in 1911 to promote the development of an improved national road network in the United States. Under the slogan “Good roads for everyone!” the NHA proposed a 150,000-mile (241,402-kilometer) network of roads, based on a four-fold system of national, state, county, and town or township highways and roads. The map associates the cause of good roads with the “preparedness” campaign, which was launched early in World War I by those advocating U.S. entry to the war as an ally of Britain and France. A note on the map indicates that the tour was made in a stock five-passenger Hupmobile, which is pictured

Date

1918

Photographer / author

National Highways Association

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

1,566 × 1,024 pixels

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