Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
By 1930, Rand McNally had two major road map competitors, General Drafting and Gousha, the latter of which was founded by a former Rand McNally sales representative. The Rand McNally Auto Chum, later to become the ubiquitous Rand McNally Road Atlas, debuted in 1924. The first full-color edition was published in 1960 and in 1993, it became fully ...
William H. Rand. William H. Rand. William Henry Rand (May 2, 1828 – June 20, 1915) was an American printer and co-founder of the Rand McNally publishing company. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and as a young man was an apprentice at his brothers' print shop in Boston. He was enticed west in September 1849, by the California Gold Rush.
Burnham and Root was one of Chicago 's most famous architectural companies of the nineteenth century. It was established by Daniel Hudson Burnham and John Wellborn Root . During their eighteen years of partnership, Burnham and Root designed and built residential and commercial buildings. Their success was crowned with the coordination of the ...
On March 4, 1836, McNally was born in Armagh, Ireland. Career. A printer by trade, he moved to Chicago in 1858 and got a job in a print shop owned by William H. Rand at a wage of $9 per week. In 1873, McNally and William H. Rand incorporated Rand, McNally & Co. With William H. Rand as President and McNally as Vice President.
Opened. 1889. Demolished. 1911. Design and construction. Architect (s) Burnham and Root. The Rand McNally Building was an early skyscraper at 160–174 Adams Street in Chicago, Illinois, built in 1889 and demolished in 1911. Designed by Burnham and Root, it was the world's first all- steel framed skyscraper .
Imagine it’s 1920s Los Angeles. You’re driving around town in a Model T, cruising from Echo Park’s Edendale studios to Universal City to Musso and Frank on Hollywood Boulevard. That ...
1565 A.D. Florida’s St. Augustine is the oldest continuously inhabited European-founded city in the nation, founded by the Spanish conquistador Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in 1565 A.D. The city ...
The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States. As the designation and numbering of these highways were coordinated among the states, they are sometimes called Federal Highways, but the roadways ...