Silverton and Ouray toll-road, Colo., U.S.A. – Vintage 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 rare historic photograph captures Silverton and Ouray toll-road, Colo., U.S.A. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Silverton and Ouray toll-road, Colo., U.S.A.
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The road that linked Silverton and Ouray wound through the high San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, a route that carried ore, supplies, and passengers between two busy mining towns. This stereograph shows a horse-drawn carriage on that toll road, with the steep mountain walls rising behind it. Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, produced and sold millions of stereo cards like this one around 1897, and viewers used a stereoscope to see the scene in depth. Travelers paid tolls to use roads like this one, so the carriage and the road themselves record how people moved through Colorado's mining country at the close of the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Keysone View Company, manufacturers and publishers, c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 66745C U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8001. Copyright by B.L. Singley. |
| Subjects | Toll roads--Colorado--1890-1900. Mountains--Colorado--1890-1900. Carriages & coaches--Colorado--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,304 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-187244 |
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