Leadville, Colorado, 1879 – Antique Wall Map
(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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This antique map of Leadville, Colorado, 1879 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Leadville, Lake County, Colo. 1879
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Leadville, Colorado, 1879
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Leadville was a silver boomtown only about two years old in 1879, after prospectors struck carbonate ore in California Gulch in 1877. Its population grew quickly at an elevation above 10,000 feet, and frame buildings, saloons, assay offices, and boarding houses crowded the streets around the mines on the surrounding hills. Ore wagons and freight teams hauled supplies and bullion over rough roads, because no railroad had yet reached the town. Residents already knew Leadville as one of the richest and rowdiest mining camps in the West, where fortunes rose and fell with each new strike.
| Created / published | 1879 |
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| Creator | ramsey, millett & hudson, koch, augustus |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Leadville, Colorado, drawn in 1879. 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 | 10,496 × 7,248 px · prints to 35 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Leadville, Lake County, Colo. 1879 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488067 |
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