Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1909 – Vintage Map 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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A window into the past: Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1909, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye-view of Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1909
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In 1909 Colorado Springs was a city of roughly 30,000 people, and much of its money came from the Cripple Creek gold district about 35 miles to the west. Mining companies and investors kept their offices and banks in town, and the railways that ran up the mountainsides carried ore, supplies, and miners back and forth. The labor troubles that had convulsed the Cripple Creek camps in the early 1900s still shaped local politics, with mine owners and town leaders often on the same side against union organizers. Away from the boardinghouses and the health-seeking visitors of earlier decades, the city's residents knew it as a place of wealth from gold, a growing streetcar network, and a summer crowd drawn by the views of Pikes Peak.
| Created / published | 1909 |
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| Creator | benford-bryan pub. co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Colorado Springs, Colorado, drawn in 1909. 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 | 5,672 × 4,168 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye-view of Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488054 |
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