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Rand McNally provides mapping, software and hardware for consumer electronics, commercial transportation and education markets. Founded in 1856, the company is known for its atlases, road maps, globes, and random number books.
Blue Highways is a travel book by William Least Heat-Moon, who explored rural America on small roads in 1978. The book chronicles his encounters with people, culture and history along the way, and has inspired several follow-up projects and references.
The Boxcar Children is a classic children's book series about four orphaned siblings who live in a boxcar in the woods. The series, created by Gertrude Chandler Warner, has over 160 titles and features many adventures and mysteries.
Thomas Guide is a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States. Learn about the origins, development, and changes of the Thomas Guide brand, from its creation in 1915 by George Coupland Thomas and his brothers to its acquisition by Rand McNally in 1999.
Andrew McNally (1836-1904) was an American publisher and co-founder of Rand McNally, a leading map publisher. He also owned Rancho Los Coyotes, a large tract of land in Southern California, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.
Harry Mathias Gousha, a sales executive for Rand McNally, left that company in 1926 to start his own map company out of Chicago, quickly becoming Rand McNally's chief competitor by offering the Touraide: a spiral-bound book with road maps, points of interest, and accommodations that was custom assembled for individual buyers.
The Ranally city rating system is a tool developed by Rand McNally & Co. to classify U.S. cities based on their economic function. The system is designed to reflect an underlying hierarchy whereby consumers and businesses go to a city of a certain size for a certain function; some functions are widely available and others are only available in the largest cities.
Learn about the 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who wrote a bestselling book and a documentary film about his adventure. The expedition aimed to prove that South Americans could have reached Polynesia, but the hypothesis is disputed by most scholars.
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