CO Pikes Peak 1890 MAP – 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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Step back in time with CO Pikes Peak 1890 MAP, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Pikes Peak panorama
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CO Pikes Peak 1890 MAP
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Rising about 14,000 feet west of Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak is the focus of this 1890 panoramic map, which shows the mountain and its surroundings as a bird's-eye view rather than a flat survey. Henry Wellge drew the view for the American Publishing Co. of Milwaukee, and his pictorial panoramas were popular for showing landscapes as a traveler might see them. Zebulon Pike sighted the peak in 1806, and by 1890 it was drawing growing numbers of visitors, with a cog railway under construction to carry them to the summit.
| Created / published | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Creator | american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.), wellge, h. (henry) |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,827 × 3,400 px · prints to 23 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pikes Peak panorama |
| Reference | CO-PikesPeak-1890 |
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