Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1896 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1896 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Cripple Creek, 1896
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Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1896
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Cripple Creek in 1896 was a gold town in the Pikes Peak region of central Colorado, still growing fast after Bob Womack's 1890 strike had drawn prospectors into the surrounding hills. Investors from Colorado Springs and eastern cities put money into the district's mines, and the town's population rose as miners, merchants, and gamblers arrived to work the claims or serve those who did. That same year the nation's attention turned to the silver question, and Colorado voted for William Jennings Bryan and free silver, a stance that sat uneasily with a community whose wealth came from gold. The nearby camp of Victor was expanding alongside Cripple Creek, and residents of both towns measured their prospects by the next shipment of ore leaving the hills.
| Created / published | 1896 |
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| Creator | western lithograph co, phillips & desjardins |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Cripple Creek, Colorado, drawn in 1896. 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 | 11,232 × 8,400 px · prints to 37 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Cripple Creek, 1896 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488056 |
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