Cheesman Memorial Denver, Colorado, 1911 – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Cheesman Memorial Denver, Colorado, 1911, a historic image rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Cheesman Memorial
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Cheesman Memorial Denver, Colorado, 1911
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Denver in 1911 was a mining, railroad, and smelting city that had grown to more than 200,000 people, and its wealth still rested heavily on the silver and gold that had flowed through the city since the 1859 rush. The Cheesman Memorial, a stone pavilion set in the park that bore the name of Walter Cheesman, a Denver businessman who died in 1907, was built as a civic tribute to him. Residents of the era knew the park as a place for Sunday strolls, band concerts, and outings for families living in the growing neighborhoods east of downtown. The memorial's columns and open colonnade reflected the City Beautiful ideas then reshaping American cities, which favored monumental public spaces. Denver was also still climbing out of its reputation as a rough frontier supply town, and its leaders promoted parks and handsome buildings as proof of that change.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Creator | mile high photo co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Colorado |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,388 × 1,322 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Cheesman Memorial |
| Reference | CO Cheesman Memorial Denver 1911 |
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