View of Black Hawk Point" / Haerting lith. ; lith. Chas. Shober ; J.E. Dillingham del." – Vintage Photo 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.)
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A window into the past: View of Black Hawk Point" / Haerting lith. ; lith. Chas. Shober ; J.E. Dillingham del.", preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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View of Black Hawk Point" / Haerting lith. ; lith. Chas. Shober ; J.E. Dillingham del."
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Black Hawk Point shows a Colorado mining camp from a high vantage point, so its streets, cabins and diggings spread across the gulch like a map. J.E. Dillingham drew the view, and Charles Shober of Chicago published it as a lithograph, with Haerting credited for the lithographic work. Dated to the early 1860s, it reflects the gold rush that drew prospectors into the Rockies and the popularity of bird's-eye views among readers curious about distant boomtowns. Black Hawk lies in Gilpin County near Central City, and the print records a settlement built quickly on steep ground.
| Created / published | Chicago : Chas. Shober, 1862, c1864 Aug. 17. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Remarques 1860-1870.Bird's-eye view prints 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | 25892 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Filed Jany. 13th 1863 by J.E. Dillingham [...] H. Bradley clerk. |
| Subjects | Cities & towns--Colorado--1860-1870. Frontier & pioneer life--Colorado--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,153 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109192 |
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