This promotional brochure for the Lee Highway (Route 11) was published by the National Highways Association. The 23-page booklet includes a number of photographic illustrations along with two folding maps attached to the rear cover: Map Showing Lee Highway The Backbone Road of the South (25 x 7.8") and Map Showing 1st Section of Lee Boulevard…from Arlington Memorial Bridge to Falls Church Va (19.3 x 8.0"), which features an illustration of the Arlington Memorial Bridge “To be opened by November 1931.” Extending from Washington, D.C. to San Diego, the Lee Highway was conceived as a southern transcontinental alternative to the Lincoln Highway to the north. It was announced with great fanfare at the White House with the placement of the Zero Milestone on the White House lawn. The route still exists but the use of the Lee Highway name is rarely in use. The most noteworthy exception for now is Lee Highway in northern Virginia where the legislature has passed a bill to allow the counties to rename it. Paper wrappers feature a small map of the “All Year Transcontinental Route Short Line to California” on the front cover and a photo of the Zero Milestone at the White House on the rear cover. We found only one institutional example listed on OCLC.

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Condition: A

Maps and text are clean and bright. Corners are slightly dog-eared and wrappers lightly soiled.