Colorado, Gray's and Torrey's Peaks – 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
This rare historic print captures Colorado, Gray's and Torrey's Peaks in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Colorado, Gray's and Torrey's Peaks
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Gray's and Torrey's Peaks are a pair of neighboring summits in Colorado's Front Range, both rising above 14,000 feet and named for the American botanists Asa Gray and John Torrey. This color print was made by the Detroit Publishing Company using the photochrom process, a Swiss method that layered several lithographic stones over a photograph to produce vivid, painterly color. Photochroms were popular with travelers and armchair tourists in the late 1890s, and this view shows the mountains as the railroad-era public would have wanted to see them: broad, snow-streaked, and dramatic.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co., no. 50105. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Mountains.United States--Colorado--Grays Peak.United States--Colorado--Torreys Peak. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,041 × 2,377 px · prints to 20 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif18295_ColoradoGraysandTorreysPeaks |
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