Black Hawk, Colorado, 1882 – Antique Map 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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Step back in time with Black Hawk, Colorado, 1882, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Black Hawk, Colo. 1882
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Black Hawk, Colorado, 1882
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Black Hawk, Colorado, in 1882 was a mining town packed into Gregory Gulch in Gilpin County, a few miles from Central City, with its fortunes tied to gold and silver ore from the hills above. Prospectors struck placer gold there in 1859, and by the early 1880s stamp mills and ore-reduction works crowded the creek bottom. The Colorado Central Railroad reached the town in the early 1870s, linking the district to Golden and the Denver market and making it easier to bring in machinery and ship out bullion. Residents knew Black Hawk as one of the Front Range mining camps, where the work was hard, the streets were steep, and buildings seemed to cling to the slope.
| Created / published | 1882 |
|---|---|
| Creator | stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Black Hawk, Colorado, drawn in 1882. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Colorado |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,320 × 2,936 px · prints to 21 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Black Hawk, Colo. 1882 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488050 |
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