Trinidad, 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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This antique map of Trinidad, Colorado, 1882 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Trinidad, Colo. 1882 county seat of Las Animas County
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Trinidad, Colorado, 1882
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Trinidad, in Las Animas County in southern Colorado, was a coal and railroad town in 1882, four years after Colorado became a state. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway had reached the town in 1878, and that line turned a river-bottom trading settlement on the Purgatoire into a freight stop for coal, cattle, and goods moving over Raton Pass. Coal mines in the surrounding hills drew Anglo, Hispanic, and European workers, and their wages and company housing shaped the town's streets and social life. Residents in 1882 would have known Trinidad as a rail junction and a mining supply center at the edge of the mountains, a place where new brick buildings were going up alongside older adobe houses.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Creator | stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Trinidad, 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 | 5,368 × 3,984 px · prints to 18 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Trinidad, Colo. 1882 county seat of Las Animas County |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488073 |
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