Gunnison, 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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This rare antique map captures Gunnison, Colorado, 1882 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Gunnison, Colo. county seat of Gunnison County, 1882
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Gunnison, Colorado, 1882
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Gunnison, Colorado, in 1882 was a young railroad and mining town on the Gunnison River, where Tomichi Creek joins it in a high valley on the Western Slope. The town was laid out in 1874 and named for John W. Gunnison, an army surveyor killed in Utah in 1853, and it served as the seat of the newly organized Gunnison County. That year the Denver, South Park and Pacific narrow gauge line reached the town, tying its merchants and the surrounding ranches and mines to Denver and the wider rail network. Residents relied on cattle, lumber, and freight wagons bound for the silver camps and coal fields nearby, and the arrival of the railroad promised a steadier economy than the boom-and-bust mining that had first drawn settlers here.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Creator | stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Gunnison, 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 | 6,896 × 3,520 px · prints to 23 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Gunnison, Colo. county seat of Gunnison County, 1882 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488066 |
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