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Rand McNally provides mapping, software and hardware for consumer electronics, commercial transportation and education markets. Founded in 1856, the company is known for its atlases, road maps, globes, and random number books.
Agloe was a made-up hamlet in the Catskill Mountains that became a copyright trap for mapmakers. It is also a setting in novels and films, such as Paper Towns and The Cartographers.
Thomas Guide is a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States. Learn about the origins, development, and changes of the Thomas Guide brand, from its creation in 1915 by George Coupland Thomas and his brothers to its acquisition by Rand McNally in 1999.
The Ranally city rating system is a tool developed by Rand McNally & Co. to classify U.S. cities based on their economic function. The system is designed to reflect an underlying hierarchy whereby consumers and businesses go to a city of a certain size for a certain function; some functions are widely available and others are only available in the largest cities.
Context map showing the Mexican state of Nuevo México in much of the first decade after Mexican Independence (map represents territorial extent from November 1824 to 1830). Rand McNally's 1897 map of New Mexico showing land grants recognized by the U.S.(red), not recognized (green), and some of the Indian reservations in the state (yellow).
Harry Mathias Gousha, a sales executive for Rand McNally, left that company in 1926 to start his own map company out of Chicago, quickly becoming Rand McNally's chief competitor by offering the Touraide: a spiral-bound book with road maps, points of interest, and accommodations that was custom assembled for individual buyers.
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