1940 ESSO COLONIAL BEACON OIL Pictorial Road Map NEW YORK Niagara Falls Syracuse For Sale
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1940 ESSO COLONIAL BEACON OIL Pictorial Road Map NEW YORK Niagara Falls Syracuse:
$18.99
Vintagefold-out 1940 Esso road map of New York, printed more than 82 yearsago.
- The map opens to 23" x 33"and has great detail on old highway alignmentsand route numbers in the Empire State,with cartography by the General Drafting Company.
- On the reverse sidethere is a pictorial map of the state, plus inset plans of Syracuse,Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, and southern New York.
- The map was distributed by the Colonial Beacon OilCompany in 1940 topromote its Esso brand, and it is dated in the legend.
- The photographon the front cover shows Niagara Falls.
- The map labels the fictitious town of "Agloe" — a"copyright trap"placed on Esso road maps by the General Drafting Company. The purposebehindusing this nonexistent town was to reveal if rival mapmakers werecopying the information.
- The name "Agloe" was a scramble of theinitials of Otto G. Lindberg (founder of the General Drafting Company)and his assistant Ernest Alpers. They located the town at a dirt-roadintersection north of Roscoe, in the Catskills.
- Condition: This map is in very goodcondition,bright and clean, with no rips, tears, or writing.Please see the scans and feel free to ask any questions.
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