Denver, Colorado, 1887 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Denver, Colorado, 1887. 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 Denver, 1887
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Denver, Colorado, 1887
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Denver in 1887 was in the middle of a building boom that had pushed its population well past the 35,000 people of 1881, and the city's streets were lined with new brick and stone blocks. Work on the new state capitol had begun in 1886, so the stone walls rising on Capitol Hill were a visible sign that Colorado's government was still taking shape. Packers and livestock dealers were also reshaping the city's economy, since the Denver Union Stock Yards had opened in 1886 on the northern edge of town, where cattle from the plains were sorted and shipped east. Residents who looked at a map of their city in that year would have recognized the stockyards, the smelters, and the capitol site as the new Denver.
| Created / published | 1887 |
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| Creator | rocky mountain news, mills engraving co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Denver, Colorado, drawn in 1887. 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 | 8,048 × 6,016 px · prints to 27 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye view of Denver, 1887 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488058 |
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