Salida, Colorado, 1882 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Salida, 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.
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Salida, Colorado, 1882
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Salida, Colorado, in 1882 was a young railroad town, laid out in 1880 by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad where the Arkansas River leaves its canyon and enters the broader valley. The Spanish name, roughly "exit" or "gateway," suited a place that handled freight moving between the mountains and the plains. Railroad shops and the division yard made the railroad the main source of work, while ore and timber from the surrounding mountain camps moved through on the rails. Most of its residents were railroad men, merchants and their families, and they lived with the fast, uneven growth that marked many Colorado towns built around the iron road in the early 1880s.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Salida, 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 |
| Original scan | 5,035 × 2,870 px · prints to 17 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488072 |
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