1934 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota

Stats:

• Size: 38" x 32" unfolded, 4" x 9" folded.
• Scale: 1 inch = 12 miles
• Conditions as of: May 1, 1934
• Commissioner of Highways: N. W. Elsberg
• Cartographer: McGill - Warner Co, St. Paul

Comments:

• First map with a cover when folded.
• First map to show Minnesota's expanded trunk highway system, authorized in 1933 and taken over in 1934.
• The background color of the state has been changed to a dull yellow, a feature that will persist until 1940.
• The back of the map has been updated with more information for tourists and the first photographs seen on an official Minnesota highway map.
• A new format of Twin Cities inset was introduced, used through 1940.