Maysville, Colorado, 1882 – 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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Maysville, Colorado, 1882 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: Bird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 1882
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Maysville, Colorado, 1882
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Maysville, Colorado, in 1882 was a small mining settlement in Chaffee County, in the high country west of the Arkansas River, where prospectors had been working silver and lead claims since the late 1870s. Its fortunes rose and fell with the mines in the surrounding hills and with the freight wagons and mule trains that hauled ore out and supplies in over rough roads. The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad was extending its line up the Arkansas Valley that same period, and the new railroad towns, Salida among them, which was founded in 1880 as a division point, drew business and people away from isolated camps. Colorado had been a state only since 1876, so residents here were still building churches, schools and town councils while watching to see whether their diggings would last.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Creator | stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Maysville, Colorado, drawn in 1882. 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 | 5,152 × 2,536 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 1882 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488069 |
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