Denver, Colorado, 1908 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Denver, Colorado, 1908. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Denver, Colorado, 1908
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Denver, Colorado, 1908
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Denver in 1908 was a railroad and wholesale city of roughly 200,000 people, with its downtown blocks, warehouses, and rail yards spread across the South Platte bottoms. That summer the city hosted the Democratic National Convention, which drew delegates, reporters, and crowds to its hotels and halls and nominated William Jennings Bryan for president. Denver's bankers and merchants still counted on the mining camps of the mountains, but farming on the plains was growing too, with beet sugar factories and irrigated fields bringing new commerce to the city's depots. Residents who walked Sixteenth Street that year could see a town that was confident about its future and eager to be taken seriously as a western metropolis.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | birdseye view publishing co, denver lith. co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Denver, Colorado, drawn in 1908. 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 | 18,980 × 13,018 px · prints to 63 × 43 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Denver, Colorado, 1908 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488061 |
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