Object Details
- Description
- Cyrus Avery, a highway advocate in Tulsa, Oklahoma, founded Route 66 while helping to plan a national highway system in the 1920s. New, long-distance highways crossed the nation east to west and north to south, superseding short, local roads. Roadside markers with route numbers, like this example from Clinton, Oklahoma, directed motorists and replaced road names. Avery’s proposal for a route from Chicago to Los Angeles through his home state was approved and designated U. S. 66 in 1926. Route 66 became a corridor for important migrations by Dust Bowl victims, military personnel, veterans, and vacationers.
- Credit Line
- Gift of State of Oklahoma, Department of Transportation
- ID Number
- 1993.0282.01
- catalog number
- 1993.0282.01
- accession number
- 1993.0282
- Object Name
- route marker, US 66, Oklahoma
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- black (letters color)
- Measurements
- overall: 16 1/2 in x 16 1/2 in; 41.91 cm x 41.91 cm
- used
- United States: Oklahoma
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- Road Transportation
- Exhibition
- America On The Move
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1212027
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-aa38-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
