Denver, Colorado, 1881 – Antique Wall Map
(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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This rare antique map captures Denver, Colorado, 1881 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Denver, Colorado, 1881
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Denver, Colorado, 1881
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Denver in 1881 was a young city of roughly 35,000 people, built on the South Platte River and Cherry Creek after the gold rush of 1858 drew prospectors to the foothills. Its growth rested on railroads: the Denver Pacific had linked it to the Union Pacific at Cheyenne in 1870, and William Jackson Palmer's Denver and Rio Grande was pushing its lines south toward the mining districts. Silver strikes at Leadville drew supplies, freight, and business through Denver's warehouses and wholesale houses, and the city's merchants and bankers competed hard for that trade. Colorado had become a state only five years earlier, in 1876, and Denver's residents saw their town as the seat of a new state government and the commercial capital of the Rocky Mountain West.
| Created / published | 1881 |
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| Creator | flett, j. h. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Denver, Colorado, drawn in 1881. 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 | 4,304 × 2,856 px · prints to 14 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Denver, Colorado, 1881 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488057 |
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