Denver, Colorado – Vintage Print
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic print of Denver, Colorado. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Denver, Colorado
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Stretched to a long panoramic sheet about 20 inches wide, this Denver view comes from the Detroit Publishing Company's photochrom line, a process that built up color from multiple printing stones to give photographs a soft, painted look. Denver had grown from a mining supply town after the gold strikes of 1858 into the commercial center of the high plains, and by the late 1890s it was a common subject in the company's catalog of American cities. The wide format lets the viewer take in the streets and rooftops at once, a record of a city still expanding quickly. The sheet was also registered for copyright, which is why its catalog number and deposit record survive today.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color ; sheet 6 5/16 x 20 in. |
| Genre | Cityscapes.Panoramic views.Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | 34094 U.S. Copyright Office Detroit Publishing Co., no. 50112. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | United States--Colorado--Denver. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,456 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217141 |
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