Collection Connections: America’s Roadways
John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive
- Collection overview
- Free to Use and Reuse: Selections from the archive
- Roadside America Flickr album
- Roadside America Story Map
- Caught Our Eyes: Coffee and Donuts, Anyone? Picture This August 9, 2012
- “Exclamation Points”—John Margolies Photographs of Roadside America Ready for Touring Picture This June 21, 2017
- On the Road Again: Scouting Out “Roadside America” Sites Picture This October 12, 2017
- Marvels of Roadside & Main Street America: John Margolies event recording
Selections from the Highsmith (Carol M.) Photo Archive
- Roads
- Road Signs
- Roadside Attractions
- Roadways
- Route 1
- Route 101
- Route 11
- Route 30
- Route 46
- Route 66
- Street Scenes
- Street Signs
Primary Source Album: Before the Interstates there was the Lincoln Highway
Highways
- Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information highway photos
- Gottscho-Schleisner highway photos
- Carol M. Highsmith highway photos
- U.S. maps
- Federal legislation
- Historical newspaper articles: Federal Aid Highway Act
- Historical newspaper articles: interstate highways
- Reports & other texts
- Candrian’s State Highways Auto Guide: 1920 & 1921
- Highway oral histories
- Song recordings
- Dixie Highway
- Highway 61 Blues
- I’m in the Highway Man (starts at 55 seconds)
- On the Dixie Highway
Interstate highways
- National system of interstate and defense highways : as of June, 1958 map
- Federal legislation
- Reports & other texts
- History of the Interstate Highway System U.S. Department of Transportation
Articles & blog posts
- America on the Road: The Family Vacation by Car Library of Congress Blog July 26, 2021
- Finding America On the Road Library of Congress Magazine, July/August 2021, pp. 14-19
- On the Road Again and Again Library of Congress Magazine, July/August 2021, pp. 20-23
- Today in History: Lucy the Elephant & Other Roadside Attractions
- We Love Lucy…Roadside Architecture and Pachyderm Primary Source Analysis Teaching with the Library of Congress May 7, 2020