Kenyon Map (4 results)

Fully colored pocket map in fine condition. Stiff printed wrappers, lightly worn, with tear at top right corner. Shows from Basel, Switzerland to the North Sea and English Channel. Inset maps of the Eastern and Italian fronts. Town index for France and Belgium on the verso. A most interesting map of the western front in France in World War I, published just before the Armistice of November 11, 1918. The key, printed in red to correspond with locations on the map, shows the locations of the front at eight points during the war, starting in 1914, with the last being dated October 31, 1918. There is no acknowledgement of an imminent end of the war. A wonderful map which condenses the war into one graphic view.

36 x 25 3/4 inches. Condition: Very good condition. Wall Map in bright color. beautiful double sided wall map and calendar for 1922 and 1923 created by Kenyon Map Company of Des Moines, IA. The map is laid out for display on the wall with a very nice large map of Illinois. The top banner says "Auto Sale Company, Automobile and Tractor Repairing, Acetylene Welding, Expert Battery Work, O/ils, Gas, Tires, Auto Accessories." Princeville Illinois.The map is bordered on both sides with layouts of the main trails on their pole designation. Each small pole illustration represents a trail running through the state. The symbols are keyed into the index. This pre-dates the national highway numbering system (1926). Route 66 is named the East St. Louis, Springfield, Chicago Route. The Lincoln highway is No. 29. The composition is most attractive. At the top is a banner for The verso has a nice highway map of the United States as laid out in 1921. The United States map is bordered on both sides by a listing of national auto trails. There is also a world map with the latest census data included on both sides of the map.At the bottom are calendars for 1922 and 1923.

Average. Backed on archival tissue for stability. A few fold separations and tears. Size 17 x 23.25 Inches. This is a 1914 Kenyon Company road map of Iowa issued with overprinting to promote the Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Association. A Closer Look Coverage embraces Iowa. Overprinting in red, green, and blue highlights highways, routes, pikes, railroads, and other roads across the state, each of which is numerically identified. Black lines illustrate 84 more roads, routes, trails, and highways. Cities and towns are labeled across Iowa and into eastern Nebraska and northern Missouri. The Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Association The Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Association (1884 - Present) is an insurance company in Des Moines, Iowa. It was founded on January 2, 1884, by J. B. Herrisman as the Iowa Mutual Tornado, Cyclone, and Windstorm Insurance Association. It changed its name to the Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Association in 1903. The company changed its name again in 1970 to IMT Insurance Company, under which it still operates. Publication History and Census This map was compiled, engraved, printed, and copyrighted by the Kenyon Company in 1914 for the Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Association. This is the only known cataloged example.

Good. Light wear along original folds. 5 inch tear professionally repaired at top-left, several smaller tears professionally repaired. Some loss along fold lines. Text on verso. Size 17.5 x 20 Inches. A product of the early automotive age, this is a 1914 Kenyon Company pocket map of Oklahoma. The map emerged in the same year that Henry Ford revolutionized American manufacturing by introducing the Assembly Line, a move that made the Model-T affordable to many and launched hte Automobile Age. This map is thus significant for its forward focus on auto-routes. A Closer Look Coverage embraces Oklahoma, with counties shaded and subdivided by red survey meridians. The Oklahoma Panhandle is incorporated via an inset at bottom-left. The surrounding grid corresponds with an index on the verso. The verso also includes a legend explaining symbols for post offices, telegraph offices, and various methods of indicating railroad services and ownership. 'Chief auto routes' are traced in green, while black lines represent rail lines. Rivers and areas of elevation are illustrated, and red text indicates national parks and military bases (namely, Fort Sill towards bottom-left). Large red numbers denote congressional districts. The Early Automotive Age This map predates the designation of U.S. Route 66 by twelve years, and highways were still a novelty at the time of publication (the same year Ford's Model-T began production). However, portions of the road network seen here were incorporated into Route 66, the 'main street of America,' namely the roads leading west from Oklahoma City towards Amarillo, including Clinton, home to the Oklahoma Route 66 Museum. Once the route was designated, Oklahoma would be home to more than 400 miles of the roadway, second only to New Mexico. Most highways, however, including eventually the interstate system, followed the routes of railways, such as the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway, which cuts a neat diagonal line across the state, rather than the many-right-angled roads seen here. From Indian Territory to Statehood Although Oklahoma maintained a large population of Native Americans and had recently been an Indian Territory, it did not retain its Reservation System into the 20th century. Instead, as Oklahoma became a state, reservations were transitioned (often in reduced form) into local governments with a degree of autonomy for recognized tribes (of which there are now 38), explaining the variation in borders and county size in the eastern half of the state. However, the haphazardly-managed transition, which proceeded without existing reservations being formally disbanded, has resulted in persistent legal ambiguity. A 2020 U. S. Supreme Court ruling, McGirt v. Oklahoma , determined that tribes have the authority to prosecute (or not) crimes committed within their lands where the suspect is an American Indian, independent of the state government. Publication History and Census This pocket map was prepared and published by the Kenyon Company in 1914. We note one example in institutional collections, at the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection at Stanford. References: Rumsey 5422.003.