Pike's Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado – Historic 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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Pike's Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado comes to life in this historic print, 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.
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Pike's Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Pike's Peak Avenue in Colorado Springs is the subject here, with the mountain it takes its name from rising at the far end of the street. The color comes from the photochrom process, which Detroit Publishing Company used to turn black-and-white photographs into hand-tinted-looking color prints for sale to tourists around 1898. Such views were popular souvenirs of the rail and resort towns that drew visitors to the Rockies in that era. The Library of Congress holds this example through a copyright deposit, one of the routes by which such prints reached national collections.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co., no. 579. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Streets. Mountains.United States--Colorado--Colorado Springs. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,456 × 1,175 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217144 |
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