The Lincoln Highway : coast to coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate / Michael Wallis and Michael S. Williamson.

Main entry:

Wallis, Michael, 1945-

Title & Author:

The Lincoln Highway : coast to coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate / Michael Wallis and Michael S. Williamson.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2007]
©2007

Description:

ix, 293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Mister Lincoln's Highway -- New York -- New Jersey -- Pennsylvania -- West Virginia -- Ohio -- Indiana -- Illinois -- Iowa -- Nebraska -- Wyoming -- Utah -- Nevada -- California.

Summary:

"The best-selling author of Route 66 and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer celebrate America's first transcontinental highway in all its neon glory. It began in 1913 with a glorious new highway--stretching across 3,389 miles and 13 states--that connected the bright lights of Broadway with the foggy shores of San Francisco. It was a magnificent and meandering road that enticed millions of newly motoring Americans to hop into their Model Ts and explore the fading frontier. The Lincoln Highway. It was the road of Gettysburg, Pretty Boy Floyd, Notre Dame, the Great Salt Lake, and the Gold Rush Trail. Once a symbol of limitless potential, it is now undergoing (as Route 66 did twenty years ago) a miraculous revival. With hundreds of new and rare photographs provided by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michael S. Williamson, this ode to a bygone era guides us across the true spine of the country, exploring vintage diners, Art Deco buildings, and funky roadside attractions, all waiting to be discovered."--Publisher's website.
A tribute to the American transcontinental highway built in 1913 evaluates its historic and cultural relevance as well as current efforts to repair its key segments.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780393059380 (hardcover)
0393059383 (hardcover)
9780393341300
0393341305

Subject:

Automobile travel United States.
Voyages en automobile États-Unis.
Automobile travel.
Travel.
Lincoln Highway History.
United States Description and travel.
Lincoln Highway Pictorial works.
Lincoln Highway Histoire.
États-Unis Descriptions et voyages.
Lincoln Highway Ouvrages illustrés.
United States.
United States Lincoln Highway.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
History.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Williamson, Michael, 1957-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275936
Call No.: BIB 210432
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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