Sign, Traffic

Object Name: Sign, Traffic

Object ID: 2018.006.02

Place of Origin: Concord, NH

Date: 1961 circa

Description: Highway sign. Laminated painted aluminum. Vertical rectangle with curved bottom edge. Blue lettering on white: "ALAN B. SHEPARD JR. / HIGHWAY". Image of space capsule orbiting earth, white on blue; six white stars. Blue border. Two mounting holes.

Material: Metal
Aluminum

Dimensions: H-24 W-20.25 inches

Provenance: Serving as the main interstate route in New Hampshire, I-93 enters New Hampshire at Salem, connecting Manchester and Concord with Tilton, Plymouth, and Littleton. I-93 is designated as the Alan B. Shepard Jr. Highway from the Massachusetts line to Hooksett (just north of Manchester at the northern terminus of I-293), as the F. E. Everett Turnpike from Hooksett to Concord, and as the Styles Bridges Highway from Concord to the Vermont line. It was constructed between 1961 and 1977.

Credit Line: Gift of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation

People: Shepard, Alan B. (1923-1998)

Subjects: Highways, Space flight, Space travel, Space vehicles, Spacecraft, Earth

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