St. Vrain Glacier, Colorado, 1920 – 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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St. Vrain Glacier, Colorado, 1920 comes to life in this historic image, 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: [St. Vrain Glacier, Colorado]
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St. Vrain Glacier, Colorado, 1920
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The St. Vrain Glacier sits high on the eastern flank of Longs Peak in the Front Range of Boulder County, Colorado, and this 1920 panoramic photograph records it in the years just after Congress created Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915. By 1920 the valley towns of Estes Park and Longmont depended on summer visitors, guest ranches, and the trade that came with the new park, while nearby ranching and small-scale mining had long shaped the local economy. Conservationists such as Enos Mills, the Estes Park writer and guide who championed the park's creation, were promoting the high country as a place for scenery and recreation rather than extraction. Mountain glaciers like this one were small remnant ice fields, and for visitors who hiked or rode up the valleys, they were among the region's best-known natural attractions.
| Created / published | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Creator | tangen & fair, tangen, ed |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Colorado |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,281 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [St. Vrain Glacier, Colorado] |
| Reference | CO St. Vrain Glacier 1920 |
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