In the pre-Internet era, Rand McNally road atlases were an essential part of planning a family vacation.

Rand McNally, the 141-year-old local firm whose name has become synonymous with maps, may be sold to the public or another company, officials announced Wednesday. The closely held company based in … ...

The 2018 Rand McNally atlas includes a new Jersey Shore inset map, with details on the Asbury Park Boardwalk and Monmouth Park Racetrack, among other points of interest.

Then Rand teamed up with Irish cartographer Andrew McNally and they branched out to train schedules and maps, eventually publishing their first road map in 1917.

Take a look back at vintage atlas covers from Rand McNally, which chart nearly a century of the great American road trip.

A 1904 Rand McNally road map of the New York City Metropolitan Area. Rand McNally Rand McNally published its first road atlas in 1924. By 1999, 75 years later, it had reportedly sold 150 million ...

But by the mid-1890s, Colton was kaput, succumbing to an upstart in Chicago called Rand McNally that had embraced a new technology that involved printing maps using wax-covered copper plates.

Take a look back at vintage atlas covers from Rand McNally, which chart nearly a century of the great American road trip.