Canon of the Rio Las Animas, 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.)
Description
This rare historic print captures Canon of the Rio Las Animas, Colorado in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Canon of the Rio Las Animas, Colorado
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The Rio Las Animas, a river that runs through the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, cuts a deep gorge here, and this color photochrom captures its rock walls as the Denver & Rio Grande line was carving a route along them. Photochrom was a process that layered hand-applied color over a photographic base, and the Detroit Publishing Company used it to sell scenic views of the American West to tourists and armchair travelers around 1900. Railroads like the Denver & Rio Grande made canyons such as this one accessible, so the print doubles as a record of how the rail lines turned remote wilderness into a destination.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | D2597 U.S. Copyright Office Detroit Publishing Co., no. 59019. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Rivers. Canyons. Railroads.United States--Colorado--Animas River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,216 × 996 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217143 |
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