Denver, Colorado, 1907 – 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 Denver, Colorado, 1907, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Birdseye view from South Broadway ... showing Harlem, Jacksons Broadway Heights & city of Denver
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Denver, Colorado, 1907
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In 1907 Denver was a city of roughly 135,000 people at the edge of the Great Plains, and its fortunes still rode on mining, railroads, and the wholesale trade that supplied the mountain districts. Gold from the Cripple Creek district, about 100 miles to the south, was refined and banked in Denver, and the federal branch mint that opened on the west side in 1906 gave the city a new mark of national standing. Electric streetcars of the Denver Tramway Company had replaced horsecars on many routes, carrying clerks and shoppers past the Brown Palace Hotel and the department stores along Sixteenth Street. In the autumn of 1907 the national financial panic reached Denver's banks, and local merchants and mine owners felt the squeeze of tight credit through the winter.
| Created / published | 1907 |
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| Creator | mitchell, a. e., denver engraving co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Denver, Colorado, drawn in 1907. 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 | 7,888 × 6,144 px · prints to 26 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birdseye view from South Broadway ... showing Harlem, Jacksons Broadway Heights & city of Denver |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488060 |
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