Summit of Pikes Peak – Vintage Wall Art
(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 historic photograph of Summit of Pikes Peak brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Summit of Pikes Peak
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Few summit views are as wide as this one, a strip of gelatin silver print about 48 inches long that spreads the mountaintop across the frame. The photograph dates to about 1919 and was registered for copyright that September by Stewart Brothers, a studio in Colorado Springs, the city at the peak's foot. By then visitors could reach the summit by the Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway, a cog line that opened in 1891, and by the auto road completed in 1915. The gallery's train category reflects that railway, which carried tourists up the mountain for decades.
| Created / published | c1919. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7.5 x 48.5 in. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints.Panoramic photographs. |
| Notes | J185933 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Stewart Brothers; September 9, 1919; DLC/PP-1919:44672. Copyright claimant's address: Colorado Springs, Colo. |
| Subjects | Mountains.United States--Colorado--Pikes Peak. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,676 × 2,890 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 18006u summit of pikes peak |
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