Chicago – Lake Geneva: A 100-Year Road Trip: Retracing the Route of H. Sargent Michaels’ 1905 Photographic Guide for Motorists

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In 1905 Homer Sargent Michaels, an automobile agent based in Chicago, developed an bizarre solution to one of the vital thorniest problems facing early motorists: how to find one’s way from one city to some other along the poorly marked rural roads of the time.  Michaels’s solution used to be to take photographs of each and every major intersection or turning point along a given route. The resulting books—ancestors of today’s digital in-car navigation systems—were remarkably useful, but few copies live to tell the tale.

Now the Chicago Map Society, in collaboration with the Newberry Library, has compiled a new edition of one of Michaels’s 1905 guides showing the route from Chicago to Lake Geneva, a resort town in southern Wisconsin. This new edition reproduces all of the guide, at the side of brief explanations and new photographs of the same locations today, in addition to an introduction by the Newberry Library’s curator of maps, Robert W. Karrow Jr. Chicago to Lake Geneva: A 100-Year Road Trip is a stellar  presentation of a historical artifact—and a captivating drive down memory lane.
 

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