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English: City of Boston, Massachusetts from the 1955 "Yellow Book" of Interstate Highway System plans. These roughly correspond to modern I-90 (to Worcester), I-95/MA-128 (outer loop), MA-3 (to Lowell; never built inside 95), and I-93 (northern expressway inside I-95), plus the never-built I-695 inner loop and I-95 southwest expressway.
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This file is a direct scan by Adam Froehlig from the following book:

Bureau of Public Roads (September 1955). "Boston and environs" (Map). General Location of National System of Interstate Highways Including All Additional Routes at Urban Areas Designated in September 1955 Scale not given. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. p. 37. OCLC 4165975.
The Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) was originally a part of the United States Department of Agriculture then the United States Department of Commerce.
The BPR is the predecessor agency to the Federal Highway Administration, a part of the United States Department of Transportation.

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This image or file is a work of a United States Department of Commerce employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

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current09:12, 25 December 2005Thumbnail for version as of 09:12, 25 December 2005800 × 476 (91 KB)SPUI~commonswiki{{PD-USGov}} City map from the 1955 "Yellow Book" of Interstate Highway System plans, from [http://www.ajfroggie.com/roads/yellowbook/]. Category:1955 Yellow Book maps

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