[Colorado Springs, Colorado. Two automobiles going down mountain road, with horseshoe turn in foreground] / Wiswall(?). – Vintage Print
![[Colorado Springs, Colorado. Two automobiles going down mountain road, with horseshoe turn in foreground] / Wiswall(?)., [between 1910 and 1925] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/61/61327ffc530d-L.webp)
(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 [Colorado Springs, Colorado. Two automobiles going down mountain road, with horseshoe turn in foreground] / Wiswall(?)., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Colorado Springs, Colorado. Two automobiles going down mountain road, with horseshoe turn in foreground] / Wiswall(?).
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A tight horseshoe bend in the foreground curls toward two automobiles climbing a mountain road outside Colorado Springs, with the slopes rising behind them. The picture comes from the National Photo Company, a commercial firm that produced views of American towns, scenery, and tourist destinations, many of them sold as souvenirs and postcards. By the mid-1910s, the automobile was changing how visitors reached the Rocky Mountain foothills, and roads like these opened scenic country that earlier travelers had reached mainly by train or on horseback. The catalog lists the attribution to Wiswall with a question mark, so the photographer's identity is uncertain.
| Created / published | [between 1910 and 1925] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic. print. |
| Genre | Photographic. prints 1910-1930. |
| Notes | No. 28039. National Photo Company Collection. |
| Subjects | Roads--Colorado--1910-1930. Mountains--Colorado--1910-1930. Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1910-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,289 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177776 |
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