AN VINTAGE MAP, "Black and White Mileage Map of Texas," CHICAGO, 1925-1950, ink engraving on paper, by Rand McNally & Company, showing mileage between towns of rail lines regardless of topography, mail routes, electric lines, cities notated by population, with an inset view of the Panhandle, bordered left by principle cities, plates 414 and 415 from original atlas. 20" x 26 1/2" Note: "Rand McNally produced the 1924 atlas automobile "trails" map just eight years after passage of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, which provided federal monetary assistance for roads to states with centralized control of highways. Texas created its highway department in 1917...now known as the Texas Department of Transportation. Many early highways simply followed the rights-of-ways of railroad and telegraph lines." Courtesy: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection and Cartography Associates Provenance: Property from a Fortune 500 Energy Company, Houston, Texas.