Pueblo, Colorado, 1890 – Historic Map Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Pueblo, Colorado, 1890 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Pueblo, Colo. 1890
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Pueblo, Colorado, 1890
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Pueblo, Colorado, in 1890 was a rail and industrial town on the Arkansas River, where the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad's shops and freight yards sat alongside smelters that processed ore from the mountain mining camps to the west. Steelmaking had arrived in 1881 with the Colorado Fuel Company's Minnequa works, and the mill and foundry jobs drew workers from across Europe and the eastern states, which gave the town its nickname as the "Pittsburgh of the West." The silver boom of the early 1890s pushed ore shipments and local payrolls upward, though the town would soon feel the collapse of silver prices in 1893. This view records the streets, churches, and business blocks as residents knew them just before that downturn.
| Created / published | 1890 |
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| Creator | american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pueblo, Colorado, drawn in 1890. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Colorado |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,416 × 11,440 px · prints to 28 × 38 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pueblo, Colo. 1890 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488071 |
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