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Vintage "Hoosier Hotel Hospitality" sample hospitality guide and travel brochure promoting hotels and motor inns along the Northern Indiana Toll Road in Indiana, United States, issued as a public service by the Toll Road Committee of the Indiana Hotel Association.
Format: Fold-out multi-panel brochure printed in black, white, and red with a vertical cover design showing an aerial view of the toll road. Front cover text reads "Sample – Hoosier Hotel Hospitality – Along the Northern Indiana Toll Road" above the subtitle "Your Hospitality Guide presented as a public service by the Toll Road Committee of the Indiana Hotel Association."
The back panel titled "the Final Link" describes the 156-mile Indiana Toll Road as the final link in a vast highway network bringing New York and the eastern seaboard within pleasant driving hours of the Midwest. A black-and-white photograph shows cars and a bus passing through a toll plaza near the University of Notre Dame, and the text emphasizes direct connections to Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey routes under the slogan "For Safer Driving."
Interior panels include an "Across Indiana" section explaining that travelers are crossing prosperous and interesting parts of the Hoosier state on a highway engineered and operated with safety in mind. Text highlights the Northern Indiana Toll Road Committee and lists member hotels of the Indiana Hotel Association that provide Hoosier hospitality at points along the route.
The main interior spread is headed "The Highway to Hoosier Hotel Hospitality" and features a graphic map of the Northern Indiana Toll Road with numbered interchanges, connecting highways, and labeled towns from Gary and Dunes State Park through Michigan City, La Porte, South Bend, Elkhart, Middlebury, Howe–Lagrange, Angola, and Pokagon State Park. Boxes identify hotels and inns near each interchange, and a band titled "Connecting Highways at Interchanges" summarizes major U.S. and state highway links.
Additional map information labeled "Service Areas and Interval Mileage" provides a linear diagram of the toll road with distances between service plazas and interchanges. Black-and-white photographic panels across the top and bottom of the spread depict scenes from Gary, Dunes State Park, La Porte, Elkhart, Pokagon State Park, Valparaiso, Michigan City, South Bend, and Angola, reinforcing the tourism and hospitality focus.
Language and origin: English-language brochure produced in the United States for motorists traveling across northern Indiana, combining promotional text, route information, and hotel listings intended to guide families and travelers using the Indiana Toll Road.
Special notes: original vintage sample edition of the "Hoosier Hotel Hospitality" Northern Indiana Toll Road hospitality guide brochure, issued by the Toll Road Committee of the Indiana Hotel Association; see photos and condition description for details of this specific copy.
