Buena Vista, 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 Buena Vista, 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 Buena Vista, Colo. county seat of Chaffee County. 1882
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Buena Vista, Colorado, 1882
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Buena Vista, Colorado, in 1882 was a young railroad and mining town in the Arkansas River valley of Chaffee County, not yet a decade old. Its growth followed the silver boom at Leadville to the north, and the town served as a supply and shipping point for the mining camps and ranches of the upper Arkansas valley. The arrival of the Denver, South Park and Pacific narrow-gauge line made hauling ore, timber and freight far easier than the old wagon roads. Residents also knew the town for the nearby hot springs at Mount Princeton, which drew visitors seeking health cures and a summer escape from the heat of the plains.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Creator | stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Buena Vista, 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 | 4,720 × 3,309 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Buena Vista, Colo. county seat of Chaffee County. 1882 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488051 |
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