Automobile Blue Book

Cover of Automobile Blue Book volume 1, 1921

The Automobile Blue Book (est.1901) was an American series of road guides for motoring travellers in the United States and Canada. Hartford businessman and automobile enthusiast Charles Howard Gillette initiated the series.^[1] By the 1910s, it became "the standard publication" of its type.^[2] Readers included F. Scott Fitzgerald.^[3]

References

1. John T. Bauer (2009). "The Official Automobile Blue Book, 1901–1929: Precursor to the American Road Map". Cartographic Perspectives (North American Cartographic Information Society) (62).
2. James R. Akerman (2006), "20th-Century American Road Maps and the Making of a National Motorized Space", in James R. Akerman, Cartographies of Travel and Navigation, University Of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226010748
3. "Official- Automobile Blue Book". Hathi Trust. Retrieved March 31, 2013.

Further reading

Automobile Blue Book. New York: Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. 1901-. Check date values in: |date= (help)

• 1917
  • v.2, New England (index)
• 1918
  • v.3, New Jersey, etc.
• 1919
  • v.1, New York
  • v.6, Alabama, Florida, etc.
  • v.8, California, Nevada, etc.
  • v.9, Oregon, Washington, etc.
• 1920
  • v.3, New Jersey, etc.
• 1921
  • v.1, New York

External links

• Hathi Trust. Automobile Blue Book
• University of South Carolina, Library. Automobile Blue Book collection, 1910-1917
• "(Digitized city maps from Automobile Blue Books)" – via University of Texas at Austin, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.