Golden, Colorado, 1882 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Golden, 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.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Golden, Colo. co. seat of Jefferson County, 1882
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Golden, Colorado, 1882
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Golden, Colorado, in 1882 was a foothills town of mining, milling, and brewing, sitting at the mouth of Clear Creek Canyon where the plains meet the mountains. It had been the first territorial capital of Colorado before Denver took that role, and by the early 1880s it had a territorial penitentiary, a brewery founded by Adolph Coors in 1873, and the Colorado School of Mines, which opened in 1874 to train engineers for the region's ore and coal industries. Railroad lines carried coal, clay products, and ore out of the canyon and connected the town to Denver and the wider mountain districts. Residents of the period would have known Golden as a working town that depended on the mines above it, with its civic life centered on the school, the churches, and the commercial blocks along its main streets.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Creator | stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Golden, 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 | 8,320 × 4,144 px · prints to 28 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Golden, Colo. co. seat of Jefferson County, 1882 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488064 |
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