Original early 20th-century trade catalog titled Blazing the Trail to Better Roads, issued by The Good Roads Machinery Co., Inc., 79 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

The catalog is devoted to road and street machinery, including graders and related road-building equipment intended for municipal, county, and contractor use. The introductory page addresses “Buyers of Road and Street Machinery” and emphasizes the firm’s experience designing and building road- and street-making appliances.

Illustrated contents include the Improved Steel Champion Reversible Road Machine, shown in a large detailed view, as well as Keystone full-round corrugated culvert pipe and other road-construction equipment.

The cover is especially attractive, with an illustrated panorama of a developing roadway winding through a town and countryside under the slogan:

“Blazing the Trail to Better Roads.”

A strong piece of early automobile-era road-building and municipal engineering literature, with crossover appeal to collectors of:

• Road graders
• Highway construction
• Corrugated metal culverts
• Municipal machinery
• Civil engineering
• Early automobile infrastructure
• Boston industrial history