General Drafting Co (19 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. [General Drafting Co., Inc. for Esso. 1946 NORTH & SOUTH CAROLINA ROAD MAP. Washington D.C.: Esso Touring Center (1946). Also showsprincipal highways of Georgia and Florida. Printed on both sides in color. 4" wide x 9" tall opens to 30" wide x 36" tall. Issued prior to Interstatehighways. Worn, soiled though complete. Some folds starting to separate. Few marginal annotations. About good.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. [General Drafting Co, Inc. staff.] 1954 STANDARD OIL MAP OF MIAMI AND VICINITY. (Publication location not listed.) Standard Oil of Kentucky1954. [Copyright by General Drafting Co., Inc., Convent Station, NJ.] Road and street map of Miami and Miami Beach. Also shows Palm Beach,West Palm Beach, Key West. Much color with color illustration of Crandon Park, Miami. Folded circa 4" wide x 8 1/4" tall opens to 23 1/2" by 161/2." Maps, text, color illustrations on both sides. Used. Generally quite good.…

No Binding. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. A Fair copy of a Used map that has been folded and refolded. Extensive wear to map with creasing, tears, sunning and staining. Tears along folded creases. The complete map of the state is in color, the others are in black & white. The state map includes a legend and "Approximate Population of Cities and Towns (1930)" The reverse contains smaller illustrations of "Picture Plan Showing Proposed State Highways And Main Connecting Roads in The Vicinity Of The New Hudson River Bridge";"Camden And Philadelphia";"Jersey City - Newark - Elizabeth - Paterson And Other Metropolitan New Jersey Motor Roads";"Proposed Highway Junction Routes 21, 25, And 29 Newark, New Jersey"; Trenton; Atlantic City; New Brunswick; "Distribution Plaza For New Jersey State Highways Approaching The Hudson River Bridge Between Fort Lee And New York City";"Following are some main through routes of New Jersey, with State Highway Route Numbers and Mileages" Also includes an introduction by the New Jersey Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. "Notes: Panel title. Text, official highway signs, table of highway route numbers and mileage, 7 ancillary maps, 2 views, and illustrations on verso. Ancillary maps on verso: Picture plan showing proposed state highways and main connecting roads in the vicinity of the new Hudson River bridge -- Trenton -- Atlantic City -- New Brunswick -- Camden and Philadelphia -- Jersey City, Newark, Elizabeth, Paterson, and other Metropolitan New Jersey motor roads. Views on verso: Proposed highway junction routes 21, 25, and 29 Newark, New Jersey -- Distribution plaza for New Jersey state highways approaching the Hudson River Bridge between Fort Lee and New York. Panel art: State outline with profile of Indian face." "Mathematic map data: Scale approximately 1:252,500 (W 75°3300--W 73°5000/N 41°2100--N 38°5500)." "Physical description: 1 map : color ; 100 x 53 cm, folded to 26 x 10 cm.".…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. [General Drafting Col., Inc. staff.] 1957 STANDARD OIL MAP OF FLORIDA WEST COAST. (Publication location not listed.) Standard Oil ofKentucky 1957. (Copyright by General Drafting Co., Inc., Convent Station, NJ.) Detailed city maps of Tampa - St. Petersburg. Shows the WestCoast of Florida from about Clearwater south. Color photo on front of folded map of the Sunshine Skyway. Folded circa 4" wide x 8 1/4" tall opensto circa 23 2/2" by 16 1/2." Maps, text, color illustrations on both sides. Appears unused. In fine conditon.…

N/A. Condition: Very Good. [General Drafting Company staff.] 1957 EASTERN UNITED STATES and Adjacent Canada map. Convent Station, NJ: General Drafting Co. forStandard Oil Co. (1957). Maps printed in color on both sides. Rubber stamped in blank space by a Standard Oil Station in Ocala, Florida. Has acolor illustration of a yellow circa 1954 Oldsmobile convertible on a winding highway on the front cover. Measures about 4" wide x 8 1/2" tall closed and opens to circa 24 1/2" wide x 34 1/2" tall). Unmarked and properly folded though toning from age and their are some tiny holes where folded. In good or better condition.…

Revised seventh edition. 306, [6] pages. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket lightly toned and soiled, bumping along top edges. Red cloth with vibrant silver stamping, bumping at spine ends and bottom board corners. Ink ownership inscription dated 1970 on half-title page. Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. With Foreword, Introduction, b/w photographs throughout, and advertisements on front endpapers and on six pages at rear. Also laid-in is a foldout pamphlet "Esso Jamaica Road Map" by Esso Standard Oil, S.A. copyright 1958 by General Drafting Co. Inc., Convent Station, NJ; approximate unfolded dimensions of H 42.5cm x L 61cm; full island map and Index on verso with recto featuring six close-up maps of Montego Bay, Port Antonio, Ocho Rios, Mandeville, Spanish Town, and Kingston-Lower St. Andrew (with accompanying street index).…

{ITEM #1.} OFFICIAL HIGHWAY MAP OF MISSISSIPPI. COMPLEMENTS STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT (with map legend title as "Official Road Map. State of Mississippi. Fielding L. Wright, Governor . . . "). Jackson, MS: Traffic & Planning Division for State Highway Commission, July 1951. Double-sided foldout color road map of Mississippi. Total of 8 panels per side. Approximate unfolded dimensions: H 17 inches x L 22 inches. Light toning and light creasing to exterior rear panel; a few edge nicks and negligibly small chips. Full-length color state map on verso primarily printed in white, black, and blue with extensive border area in pink with small inset maps for major towns. Map shows major state highways as paved or gravel (i.e. unpaved) as well as county borders, cities, towns, etc. Map title provides date of July 1951. Recto side features color photographs of state industry, agriculture, tourism-related, etc. with brief captions. {ITEM #2.} STANDARD OIL. MISSISSIPPI ARKANSAS LOUISIANA ROAD MAP WITH PICTORIAL GUIDE. [Louisville, KY] - New York: Standard Oil Company (Kentucky) - General Drafting Co., Inc., 1951. Double-sided foldout color road map. Total of 15 panels per side. Approximate unfolded dimensions: H 26 inches x L 19.25 inches. Library stamp on rear cover panel and short crease at bottom left corner. Full color highway map of the tri-state region on verso. Recto has mileage chart, town index, a "Pictorial Guide to Mississippi" map, and general maps for New Orleans, Natchez, Jackson, Vicksburg, and Memphis.…

Wall Chart. Condition: Good+. Esso Marketers 1962 Good+/ 33 x 24 inches. In color no date date is approximate probably published earlier in late 1940s. Double sided. Small tears at folds (original not mended). Light soil to parts exposed to the outside (Esso cover) o/w unmarked. Folded to 7 5/8 x 5 1/2 x 1/8 inches.…

Full Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Original full blue cloth hardcover. Comes with business card of the manager of Gerneral Drafting Co and a sheet describing the book. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. …

Condition: Good. Folded color map measuring 18 x 24 inches, with index to buildings and sites of interest. Very good, suitable for framing.

Folding highway map of the US which includes inset map of "Washington, New York-Boston Section." Mileage table, text on the National Parks and the Transcontinental Tour, time zone map, and pictorial relief map on verso. Worldcat lists the date for this publication as 1931, but in the section on National Parks, the "new Trans-Mountain Highway," of Glacier National Park is mentioned, which was completed in 1933. An uncommon map. Folding map, 40x67cm, folded to 18x11cm. Good condition with toning, wear to folds, and a split to fold at bottom left panel. Former owner's annotations in pencil on both sides, with route from San Francisco to Providence traced neatly in green.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. General Drafting Co., Inc., New York, (c. late1950s). USA population stated as 175,000,000 in the notes on the map. Large colour pictorial map of the United States, with hundreds of illustrations showing regional resources, products, industries, agriculture, wildlife, landmarks, transport, cities and natural features. Includes Alaska, Hawaii, a forty-eight star American flag, and a "Facts About the United States" text panel. Sheet size approximately 73.8 × 56 cm. Original folds, light creasing and minor handling wear; very good condition overall, with bright colour. Recorded in institutional and commercial variants. Attractive mid-century American pictorial map by General Drafting Co. …

Condition: Very Good. The boating map that sold Florida before Disney Large-format illustrated cruising chart produced by Standard Oil during the postwar leisure-boating boom, covering the Intracoastal Waterway and Gulf Coast routes from Savannah through Florida to New Orleans. Designed as both a functional navigation aid and a promotional travel object, the chart blends precise coastal cartography with pictorial lighthouse vignettes and regional landmarks, making it equally appealing to navigators and collectors of mid-century American ephemera. Physical description: Single large double-sided printed sheet, folded as issued, multiple-color offset lithography on thin stock, nautical soundings, route lines, compass roses, lighthouse and harbor illustrations, key map and legend panels, Standard Oil branding and General Drafting imprint present, approximate unfolded size large-format, exact measurements to be supplied. Condition: Paper is clean and supple with light, even age toning, original folds intact, minor handling wear at fold intersections, no losses, no tape repairs, graphics remain sharp and legible throughout, folds remain sound, issued folding format restated. Scarcity note: Surviving examples are increasingly scarce in clean, complete condition, particularly double-sided sheets retaining strong color and intact folds, most examples encountered show heavier fold wear or staining. The Southern Cruising Guide reflects the moment when recreational boating became accessible to middle-class Americans, supported by improved waterways, standardized navigation aids, and the rise of automobile and petroleum-sponsored tourism. General Drafting's crisp cartography is softened by charming illustrative elements that turn functional navigation into visual storytelling. The chart reads as both a working tool and a piece of Americana, merging maritime precision with aspirational travel culture. Historical significance Issued as part of Standard Oil's broader travel and mobility outreach, the chart illustrates how petroleum companies positioned themselves as partners in leisure and exploration, not merely fuel suppliers. It documents the growth of Florida and Gulf Coast boating infrastructure just prior to the massive postwar development boom, making it a valuable artifact for maritime, regional, and advertising history. Subjects: Intracoastal Waterway, Florida Gulf Coast, Recreational boating history, Maritime navigation, Petroleum advertising, Mid-century American design Maps and charts, Printed ephemera, Nautical material Single-sheet, double-sided folding nautical chart. Cartography by General Drafting Co., New York. (illustrator).…

31 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches. Condition: Very good. Handsomely positioned and designed map. There are small illustrations that hit the high point of a states attractiveness to the user. The map was designed for classroom use. It was distributed out of NYC. Chicago was noted for having 33 trunk line railroads. Notre Dame made the area for Indiana. Isotopes was illustrated for Oak ridge, TN. The verso has map of the United States for trip planning. It shows highways. This is an attractive map and its pictorial attributes make it useful for a kids common area.…

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Condition: Map is in very fine condition, with only the expected creasing of a folding map, 4 minuscule punctures along crease intersections, and a 1 cm tear along its bottom border. | An exceptional Depression era guide to skiing in New Hampshire, this large 1936-37 map documents the state's rapidly developing network of ski trails, clubs, jumps, and winter recreation areas. | Prepared by the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, the map identifies 37 principal ski areas stretching from the Massachusetts border through the White Mountains to the Canadian frontier. Numbered circles correspond to detailed descriptions on the reverse, while separate lists identify ski towns, ski jumps, airports operating during the winter season, and member clubs of the U.S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association. | The reverse, titled New Hampshire Skiing, provides an extraordinary directory of the state's skiing landscape, describing individual trails with their length, width, vertical drop, difficulty, and access. Among the destinations are Mount Washington, Cannon Mountain, Franconia, Pinkham Notch, Mount Moosilauke, Mount Sunapee, and numerous trails maintained by local outing clubs and the Civilian Conservation Corps. The map appeared during a formative period in American skiing, when New Hampshire's mountains were being transformed from destinations primarily for hikers and mountaineers into organized winter recreation centers. | Especially interesting is the map's connection to the Civilian Conservation Corps, whose crews constructed and improved numerous ski trails throughout New Hampshire during the 1930s. Many of these early trails helped establish the infrastructure for the state's postwar ski industry, making this map both a practical winter guide and an important record of the formative years of recreational skiing in New England. | Size: 17.5 x 27 inches.…

3 folding maps, roughly in the form of folding road maps printed on both sides, published for Esso. All three maps are in fine condition, with two short tears at edges. All three maps promote Esso oil products by featuring the role of oil products in transportation logistics. The first piece has a map of the world showing transport routes. The second piece has a map of the world on one side, Europe on the other. The text mentions a book published in 1943, but the lack of any emphasis on France suggests that this was issued before June 6, 1944. The third map features the Pacific Theater of War, with a large map of the western Pacific Ocean and a more detailed map of the area around Japan. There are many inset maps of islands in the western Pacific, but not including the Solomon Islands, indicating that this was issued well after the Guadalcanal Campaign.…

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Condition: With minimal crease lines, no discoloration, and no tears or markings, this map is in excellent condition. | An elegant and visually distinctive guide to the dawn of transatlantic air travel, this American Airlines route map presents the airline's domestic and European network through an innovative projection that places the North Atlantic at center stage, emphasizing the shrinking distance between continents in the age of modern aviation. | A New View of the Atlantic World | Rather than depicting North America and Europe on opposite sides of a conventional map, the cartographer rotates and reorients both landmasses around Greenland to highlight the great-circle routes followed by long-distance aircraft. American Airlines' routes appear in bold crimson against sea-green oceans and pale landmasses, creating a striking visual contrast that is both decorative and highly functional. The unusual orientation encourages viewers to think of Europe and America not as distant worlds, but as closely linked destinations connected by rapidly advancing air transportation. | Designed for the International Traveler | The accompanying protective sleeve is more than simple packaging. It contains instructions explaining how passengers could use latitude and longitude to trace their own journeys, transforming the map into an educational travel tool. This emphasis on navigation and geographic awareness reflects an era when international air travel remained a novel experience for many travelers. Together, the sleeve and map project an image of aviation as sophisticated, modern, and intellectually engaging. | American Airlines and the Jet Age | Issued during the period when American Airlines was expanding its international presence, the map reflects the optimism and confidence that surrounded commercial aviation in the mid twentieth century. Its restrained color palette, modern typography, and uncluttered design stand apart from the whimsical pictorial airline maps of the 1930s and 1940s. Instead, it embraces the sleek visual language of postwar aviation, presenting flight not merely as transportation, but as a symbol of global connectivity, technological progress, and modern prestige. | Size: 17 x 32 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Condition: Map is in very fine to excellent condition. Heavy cardstock folded presentation folder with bright original color. Light wear along the fold, minor edge and corner wear, and a few faint creases consistent with age and handling. Overall very good condition with strong eye appeal and no significant condition issues. | Overflowing with humor, regional character, and hundreds of whimsical illustrations, this rare Christmas promotional folder transforms the United States into Santa Claus's holiday playground while offering an unfiltered glimpse into mid-century American popular culture. | Published by the General Drafting Company of New York around 1950, A Christmas Map of the United States is an illustrated folded presentation folder featuring one of the most delightful pictorial Christmas maps of the postwar era. Nearly every state is populated with tiny cartoon vignettes showing Santa Claus engaged in local industries, landmarks, wildlife, and holiday traditions. He logs timber in Oregon, ranches cattle in Texas, fishes the Pacific Coast, harvests crops across the Great Plains, and delivers presents from Maine to Florida in more than one hundred individual scenes that reward careful study. Decorative holly borders, a scroll title cartouche, and a festive compass rose fashioned from Santa's face frame the composition, while an inset humorously depicts General Drafting Company's headquarters at 6 Church Street in Lower Manhattan. | A Holiday Portrait of Mid-Century America | Rather than emphasizing geography, the artist celebrated the distinct identity of each state through regional occupations, landmarks, and local customs. The result is less a conventional map than a visual tour of America as it was imagined during the early years of the postwar boom. Every corner reveals another joke or small narrative, encouraging the viewer to linger over the countless details hidden throughout the composition. | Not all of that humor translates comfortably today. Interspersed among the playful scenes are racial caricatures and ethnic stereotypes that were common in commercial illustration of the era but are now widely regarded as offensive. Most notable are depictions of African Americans harvesting cotton in the South alongside other exaggerated stereotypes. These images are an undeniable part of the folder's historical significance, illustrating how mainstream advertising and popular art often treated race during the period. Rather than diminishing the piece, they provide an honest reminder that even lighthearted holiday ephemera can preserve the social attitudes of its time. | General Drafting Company | Founded in 1909, the General Drafting Company became one of America's premier commercial cartographic firms, producing road maps for Esso, Mobil, and numerous other petroleum companies throughout the twentieth century. While millions of motorists relied upon the firm's highway maps, promotional pieces such as this were issued in far smaller numbers and have proven considerably more elusive. | Its folded cardstock format indicates it was produced as a presentation folder rather than as a conventional map, although whatever it originally accompanied is no longer present. Despite extensive research, we have been unable to locate another surviving example in dealer inventories, auction records, or institutional collections. Its rarity, imaginative artwork, and surprisingly candid portrayal of mid-century America make it one of the more unusual pieces of Christmas Americana we have encountered. | Size: 9 x 13.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Condition: Map is in excellent condition, published with the intent of being folded this example lays completely flat. Colors are bold, edges and corners are sharp and there are no tears, holes, or staining. | New York becomes one enormous Christmas celebration in this wonderfully colorful pictorial map, filling Manhattan with Santas, shoppers, skaters, Christmas trees, holiday traditions, and some of the city's most recognizable landmarks. | Created by the General Drafting Company as a holiday greeting in 1949, the map presents Manhattan in two sections. The larger view extends from the Battery north through Harlem, while a second map provides a closer look at Lower Manhattan and the Financial District. The city's familiar geography provides the framework for dozens of playful illustrations, with the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, Central Park, the Empire State Building, Trinity Church, George Washington Bridge, and other landmarks appearing among busy streets filled with Christmas activity. | Christmas Across New York City | Thirty-two numbered illustrations correspond to a detailed legend describing Christmas traditions and seasonal events around the city. Skaters circle Rockefeller Center beneath its famous Christmas tree, shoppers crowd Fifth Avenue, Handel's Messiah is performed at Carnegie Hall, and the Christmas tree in City Hall Park is illuminated for the season. Elsewhere, Christmas trees arrive at Fulton Fish Market, Italian holiday foods are sold in Little Italy, Santas collect donations on street corners, and the city's post offices struggle with the annual flood of Christmas mail. The map also ventures beyond the usual Midtown holiday imagery, depicting celebrations in Harlem, neighborhood churches, parks, markets, and other corners of the city. | The illustrations offer a charming portrait of New York during the first years after World War II. Santa Claus appears throughout Manhattan in an assortment of unlikely roles, riding the subway, shopping, skating, feeding animals, delivering mail, and mingling with New Yorkers. Christmas trees seem to appear everywhere, while ships, buses, automobiles, department stores, churches, restaurants, and theaters recall everyday life in the city. Some scenes are tied to specific places and traditions, while others are included simply for humor, giving the map the character of both a city guide and an illustrated Christmas greeting. | A Holiday Greeting from General Drafting | General Drafting Company was one of the largest commercial map publishers in twentieth-century America, best remembered for the millions of road maps it produced for oil companies and motorists. A Christmas Map of Manhattan allowed its artists to approach their home city very differently. Copyrighted on December 14, 1949, the map replaces the practical information of General Drafting's road maps with bold colors, decorative lettering, humor, and illustration. The dark waters surrounding a snow-white Manhattan, together with its brightly colored figures and festive imagery, make this an especially attractive example of mid-century American pictorial cartography and an unusual record of Christmas in New York nearly eighty years ago. | Size: 13 x 19.5 inches.…