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Pikes Peak by automobile -the W's from Ragged Edge – Vintage Print

Pikes Peak by automobile -the W's from Ragged Edge — historic photograph
Pikes Peak by automobile -the W's from Ragged Edge. Historic photograph from the Automobiles collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Pikes Peak by automobile -the W's from Ragged Edge. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Pikes Peak by automobile -the W's from Ragged Edge

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Few places in the Rockies offered a drive like the one up Pikes Peak, and this print shows the "W's" near Ragged Edge, a stretch of the mountain road where the route doubles back on itself in a tight zigzag. The Pikes Peak Auto Road, built as a toll road and completed to the 14,115-foot summit in 1916, was among the first routes in the country to carry ordinary motor cars to such heights. Photographs from the 1920s like this one document how the new road turned a long mule trip into a half-day outing for tourists, and they show how much engineering went into cutting a graded roadbed across steep, exposed slopes.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[192-?]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,232 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128810

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