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This large folding map provides detailed road coverage throughout New York State, with major routes emphasized in red and blue. It includes extensive town and county indexes, mileage information, road classifications, city and regional inset maps, early motoring advice, hand-signal illustrations, and period Socony gasoline and motor-oil advertising.
The title panel reads:
Socony Road Map of New York — 1925
Standard Oil Company of New York
26 Broadway, New York City
The attractive cover and advertising panels feature early automobiles, a Socony gasoline pump, Socony Motor Oil graphics, and the slogan “Socony Is Standard.”
Included map features
- Complete New York State road map
- Lower New York and Long Island inset
- New York City and vicinity map
- Buffalo and vicinity
- Rochester and vicinity
- Syracuse and vicinity
- Albany and surrounding area
- Troy and regional routes
- Extensive city, town, and county index
- Main traveled-road mileage tables
- Road classifications and approximate mileages
- Early automobile hand-signal illustrations
- “Common Sense Rules of the Road”
- Period Socony gasoline and motor-oil advertising
- Early service-station and gasoline-pump artwork
- Original 1925 issue, not a reproduction
This map was produced just before the national U.S. numbered-highway system was introduced, preserving New York’s road network during a particularly interesting period in American motoring history.
It should appeal to collectors of:
- Socony and Standard Oil memorabilia
- Gasoline and petroleum advertising
- Early service-station items
- Antique road maps
- New York history
- Automobilia
- Travel ephemera
- Early automobile history
Condition
The map appears complete and opens fully. It shows normal evidence of approximately a century of use and storage, including:
- Overall age toning
- Original fold creases
- Fold and handling wear
- Small edge tears and nicks
- Minor corner loss and edge chipping
- Scattered spotting and discoloration
- Period handwritten names or travel notations
- Localized weakness at some fold intersections
The red-and-blue printing remains strong, and the illustrated Socony advertising panels retain excellent visual appeal.
Please inspect all photographs closely. The photos are part of the description and show the exact map included.
