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Company Profile
The following section is from a 2016 press release.
Rand McNally is the country’s most trusted source for maps, navigation, and travel content. Products and services include: America’s #1 Road Atlas; IntelliRoute® truck routing software; TND™ truck GPS; HD 100 E-Log devices; TPC 7600 and TND™ 760 mobile fleet management solutions; RVND™ GPS for RVers; and leading geography-based educational resources for the classroom.
History
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Rand McNally page on 4 August 2020, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Rand McNally is an American technology and publishing company that provides mapping, software and hardware for the consumer electronics, commercial transportation and education markets. The company is headquartered in Chicago, with a distribution center in Richmond, Kentucky.
In 1856, William H. Rand opened a printing shop in Chicago and two years later hired a newly arrived Irish immigrant, Andrew McNally, to work in his shop. The shop did big business with the forerunner of the Chicago Tribune, and in 1859 Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. In 1868, the two men, along with Rand's nephew George Amos Poole, established Rand McNally & Co. and bought the Tribune's printing business. The company initially focused on printing tickets and timetables for Chicago's booming railroad industry, and the following year supplemented that business by publishing complete railroad guides. In 1870, the company expanded into printing business directories and an illustrated newspaper, the People's Weekly. According to company lore, during the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, Rand McNally quickly had two of the company's printing machines buried in a sandy beach of Lake Michigan, and the company was up and running again only a few days later.
The first Rand McNally map, created using a new cost-saving wax engraving method, appeared in the December 1872 edition of its Railroad Guide. Rand McNally became an incorporated business in 1873; with Rand as its president, McNally as vice president, and George Poole as treasurer. The Business Atlas, containing maps and data pertinent to business planning, was first published in 1876. The atlas is still updated today, now titled the Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide. The Trade Book department was established in 1877, publishing such titles as The Locust Plague in the United States. Rand McNally began publishing educational maps in 1880 with its first line of maps, globes, and geography textbooks, soon followed by a world atlas. The company began publishing general literature in 1884 with its first title, The Secret of Success, and the Textbook department was established in 1894 with The Rand McNally Primary School Geography. Also in 1894, the company opened an office in New York City headed by Caleb S. Hammond, who later started his own map company, C. S. Hammond & Co..
Rand McNally published its first road map, the New Automobile Road Map of New York City & Vicinity, in 1904. In 1910, the company acquired the line of Photo-Auto Guides from G.S. Chapin, which provided photographs of routes and intersections with directions. Andrew McNally II (son of Frederick McNally) personally took photos on his honeymoon for the Chicago-to-Milwaukee edition. The company continued to expand its book publishing business, with best-selling children's books such as The Real Mother Goose in 1916 and Kon-Tiki in 1950.
| Title & Subtitle | Details |
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Photo-Auto Maps Buffalo and Erie to Albany | Year & Type: 1909 Nonfiction Publisher: Rand McNally & Company Content: 238 pages w/black & white photos Subject: Roads & Highways Availability: Complete Book Online (PDF) |
Photo-Auto Maps Buffalo to New York | Year & Type: 1909 Nonfiction Publisher: Rand McNally & Company Content: 280 pages w/black & white photos Subject: Roads & Highways Availability: Complete Book Online (PDF) |
Photo-Auto Maps Chicago to Buffalo | Year & Type: 1909 Nonfiction Publisher: Rand McNally & Company Content: 332 pages w/black & white photos Subject: Roads & Highways Availability: Complete Book Online (PDF) |
Photo-Auto Maps Chicago to Cleveland | Year & Type: 1909 Nonfiction Publisher: Rand McNally & Company Content: 268 pages w/black & white photos Subject: Roads & Highways Availability: Complete Book Online (PDF) |
Photo-Auto Maps Chicago to Detroit | Year & Type: 1909 Nonfiction Publisher: Rand McNally & Company Content: 244 pages w/black & white photos Subject: Roads & Highways Availability: Complete Book Online (PDF) |
Photo-Auto Maps Chicago to South Bend | Year & Type: 1909 Nonfiction Publisher: Rand McNally & Company Content: 170 pages w/black & white photos Subject: Roads & Highways Availability: Complete Book Online (PDF) |
Photo-Auto Maps Chicago to Toledo | Year & Type: 1909 Nonfiction Publisher: Rand McNally & Company Content: 228 pages w/black & white photos Subject: Roads & Highways Availability: Complete Book Online (PDF) |
Photo-Auto Maps Cleveland and Oberlin to Buffalo | Year & Type: 1909 Nonfiction Publisher: Rand McNally & Company Content: 154 pages w/black & white photos Subject: Roads & Highways Availability: Complete Book Online (PDF) |
Photo-Auto Maps New York to Chicago | Year & Type: 1909 Nonfiction Publisher: Rand McNally & Company Content: 428 pages w/black & white photos Subject: Roads & Highways Availability: Complete Book Online (PDF) |
Photo-Auto Maps New York to Chicago | Year & Type: 1909 Nonfiction Publisher: Rand McNally & Company Content: 578 pages w/black & white photos Subject: Roads & Highways Availability: Complete Book Online (PDF) |
Photo-Auto Maps So. Bend to Indianapolis | Year & Type: 1909 Nonfiction Publisher: Rand McNally & Company Content: 162 pages w/black & white photos Subject: Roads & Highways Availability: Complete Book Online (PDF) |
| Date | Document | Details |
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| 1909 copyright year | Photo-Auto Maps Buffalo and Erie to Albany Albany to Buffalo | Book ( PDF) 46.4MB · 238 pagesPublisher: Rand McNally & Company |
| 1909 copyright year | Photo-Auto Maps Buffalo to New York New York to Buffalo | Book ( PDF) 53.6MB · 280 pages Publisher: Rand McNally & Company |
| 1909 copyright year | Photo-Auto Maps Chicago to Buffalo Buffalo to Chicago | Book ( PDF) 64.3MB · 332 pages Publisher: Rand McNally & Company |
| 1909 copyright year | Photo-Auto Maps Chicago to Cleveland Cleveland to Chicago | Book ( PDF) 51.3MB · 268 pages Publisher: Rand McNally & Company |
| 1909 copyright year | Photo-Auto Maps Chicago to Detroit Detroit to Chicago | Book ( PDF) 48.6MB · 244 pages Publisher: Rand McNally & Company |
| 1909 copyright year | Photo-Auto Maps Chicago to South Bend South Bend to Chicago | Book ( PDF) 34.2MB · 170 pages Publisher: Rand McNally & Company |
| 1909 copyright year | Photo-Auto Maps Chicago to Toledo Toledo to Chicago | Book ( PDF) 43.7MB · 228 pages Publisher: Rand McNally & Company |
| 1909 copyright year | Photo-Auto Maps Cleveland and Oberlin to Buffalo Buffalo and Rochester to Cleveland | Book ( PDF) 31.6MB · 154 pages Publisher: Rand McNally & Company |
| 1909 copyright year | Photo-Auto Maps New York to Chicago | Book ( PDF) 76.3MB · 428 pages Publisher: Rand McNally & Company |
| 1909 copyright year | Photo-Auto Maps New York to Chicago Chicago to New York | Book ( PDF) 112MB · 578 pages Publisher: Rand McNally & Company |
| 1909 copyright year | Photo-Auto Maps So. Bend to Indianapolis Indianapolis to So. Bend | Book ( PDF) 32.9MB · 162 pages Publisher: Rand McNally & Company |
| Date | Article | Author/Source |
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| 12 January 2016 | Two RVers Will Win $500 Rand McNally Tablet 80 GPS | Rand McNally |