The far-famed Georgetown loop – Historic Print
(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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The far-famed Georgetown loop
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The Georgetown Loop, a railroad line that doubles back over itself through a steep mountain valley west of Denver, is the subject here. The line was built in the mid-1880s to link the silver-mining town of Georgetown with Silver Plume, and its loops and trestles let trains gain elevation on grades too steep to climb directly. This photochrom print, one of the Detroit Publishing Company's color views from about 1899, shows the track curving across bridges that likely span Clear Creek. The process hand-tinted a photographic negative with color stones, giving the scene the bright, painterly look that made such views popular with tourists and armchair travelers of the period.
| Created / published | c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color ; 43.2 x 53.7 cm. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color.Mammoth plates. |
| Notes | Railroad loop in valley, and railroad bridges over river, possibly Clear Creek. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 59010. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Valleys. Railroad tracks.United States--Colorado--Georgetown. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,445 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218357 |
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