{"product_id":"old-auto-trails-map-of-arizona-1920-phoenix-tucson-grand-canyon-np-colorado-river-mogollon-rim","title":"Old Auto Trails Map of Arizona, 1920: Phoenix, Tucson, Grand Canyon NP, Colorado River, Mogollon Rim","description":"\u003cp\u003eArizona — published by the George F. Cram Company in 1920 — appears here under its original title, Arizona, composed for the Auto Trails and Commercial Survey of the United States. In a vibrant palette, the state’s counties and borders are crisply distinguished, while a web of roads and auto trails threads across desert basins and mountain uplands. State highways and principal routes are boldly drawn in red and blue, their hierarchy legible at a glance; unique color bands pick out the named auto trails that guided motorists before numbered highways. Electric lines, carefully overprinted in red, announce the new reach of power into farms, mines, and towns. Hachures lend tactile relief to the landscape, and population statistics from the 1920 census anchor each community in its moment of growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge F. Cram’s Chicago-based firm had, by 1920, refined a house style prized for clarity, color logic, and practical intelligence. The Auto Trails and Commercial Survey was one of the company’s masterworks: a 136‑page compendium with 98 color maps and supporting black‑and‑white charts, designed to knit together the nation’s new habits of driving, shipping, and investing. Standardized symbols, a traffic‑sign legend, and a comprehensive index and gazetteer made the atlas as useful to traveling salesmen as to county engineers and bankers. Cram, a Civil War veteran turned publisher, built his reputation on atlases that brought current data into the hands of ordinary users; this Arizona sheet distills that ethos, marrying vivid design with up‑to‑the‑minute infrastructure and demographic reporting at the dawn of America’s automotive age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTopography is rendered with classic hachures that sweep from the Colorado Plateau’s broken escarpments to the tawny plains of the Sonoran frontier. The Mogollon Rim is beautifully modeled as a bold stair dividing high forest from low desert; the San Francisco Peaks rise above Flagstaff, while the Chiricahua, Santa Catalina, and Huachuca ranges stipple the southeast. Rivers articulate the map: the Colorado carves Arizona’s western spine; the Gila gathers the Salt and Verde from the irrigated Salt River Valley; the Little Colorado traverses the north, and the Santa Cruz threads the borderlands toward Tucson and Nogales. Grand Canyon National Park, newly designated in 1919, commands the northwest, with adjacent plateaus and canyons crisply named. Such physiographic finesse frames the routes, settlements, and power lines that animate the state’s modern story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban and regional patterns emerge with remarkable specificity. Phoenix stands at the heart of Maricopa County’s grid, its satellite towns—Mesa, Tempe, Glendale, Chandler, Scottsdale, Gilbert, and Peoria—strung along canals and section lines in the fertile Salt River Valley. Tucson anchors the south as a rail and educational hub, linked to mining and ranching districts that run east toward Douglas and north through Casa Grande. Farther afield, Flagstaff sits beneath the Peaks, Yuma guards the Colorado crossing, and Show Low marks the cool highlands. Transcontinental and regional auto trails traverse these nodes, with a northern corridor skirting Kingman, Flagstaff, Winslow, and Holbrook, and a southern route binding Yuma, Phoenix, and Tucson—each path differentiated in unique colors that turn early motoring into a legible, almost narrative, journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEqually revealing is the infrastructure beneath the roads. Red overprints track electric lines fanning from hydroelectric projects and powerhouses to copper camps and smelters—Jerome, Globe–Miami, Bisbee—and to fast‑growing townsites. Differentiation between paved and improved roads registers the young state’s investments, while 1920 census tallies spotlight corridors of rapid change in the Salt and Santa Cruz valleys and along the northern transcontinental axis. Administrative boundaries are cleanly staged to show county responsibilities, jurisdictional shifts, and commercial reach. The atlas’s index and gazetteer let readers chase every ranch, siding, and settlement; its traffic‑sign aids smooth interpretation on the ground. Viewed today, this Cram Arizona is both itinerary and x‑ray: a precise, color‑keyed record of a landscape on the cusp of the highway era, gathering momentum toward modern Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCities and towns on this map\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTucson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMesa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChandler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScottsdale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlendale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTempe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGilbert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeoria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSurprise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlagstaff\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYuma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCasa Grande\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLake Havasu City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSierra Vista\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShow Low\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDouglas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotable Features \u0026amp; Landmarks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClearly marked administrative boundaries with distinct colors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDetailed highways and state roads shown in red and blue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElectric lines illustrated in red\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaved and improved roads indicated\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePopulation statistics derived from the 1920 census\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHachures used for indicating relief elevation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMajor cities, capitals, and counties marked prominently\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndication of auto trails in unique colors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePresence of traffic signs as navigational aids\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComprehensive index and gazetteer accompanying the map\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical and design context\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished by George F. Cram Company in 1920\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreated as part of the “Auto Trails and Commercial Survey of the United States”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart of a larger 136-page series featuring 98 color maps and black-and-white charts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign style uses vibrant colors to differentiate boundaries and roads for clarity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRepresents Arizona’s early 20th-century infrastructure and population patterns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoverage spans the entire state with emphasis on counties and major towns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease double check the images to make sure that a specific town or place is shown on this map. You can also get in touch and ask us to check the map for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks great at every size, but I always recommend going for a larger size if you have space. That way you can easily make out all of the details. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 18x24in (45x60cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fifth listing image shows an example of my map personalisation service.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you’re looking for something slightly different, check out my collection of the \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/all-old-vintage-antique-maps\"\u003ebest old maps\u003c\/a\u003e to see if something else catches your eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003econtact me\u003c\/a\u003e to check if a certain location, landmark or feature is shown on this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis would make a wonderful birthday, Christmas, Father's Day, work leaving, anniversary or housewarming gift for someone from the areas covered by this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is available as a giclée print on acid free archival matte paper, or you can buy it framed. The frame is a nice, simple black frame that suits most aesthetics. Please get in touch if you'd like a different frame colour or material. My frames are glazed with super-clear museum-grade acrylic (perspex\/acrylite), which is significantly less reflective than glass, safer, and will always arrive in perfect condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Unique Maps Co.","offers":[{"title":"12x16in (30x40cm) \/ Map","offer_id":57781750268288,"sku":"UM00271003A","price":365.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x16in (30x40cm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":57781750301056,"sku":"UM00271004A","price":982.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x16in (30x40cm) \/ Framed canvas map","offer_id":57781750333824,"sku":"UM00271005A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Map","offer_id":57781750366592,"sku":"UM00271006A","price":365.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":57781750399360,"sku":"UM00271007A","price":982.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Framed canvas 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