Pikes Peak, Colorado, 1890 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 rare antique map captures Pikes Peak, Colorado, 1890 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Pikes Peak panorama
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Pikes Peak, Colorado, 1890
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Pikes Peak, Colorado, in 1890 was a mountain that drew people as much as gold did, and the towns at its base depended on those visitors. Colorado Springs, founded in 1871 by William Jackson Palmer's company as a resort town, lay a few miles east, while Manitou Springs drew health seekers and tourists to its mineral springs at the foot of the mountain. The Pikes Peak Cog Railway was under construction that year, with its line to the summit set to open in 1891 and make the peak reachable by train for the first time. Residents knew the peak as a landmark that had lured prospectors during the Pikes Peak gold rush of 1859 and now lured sightseers, and that double identity shaped the communities beneath it.
| Created / published | 1890 |
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| Creator | american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.), wellge, h. (henry) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pikes Peak, Colorado, drawn in 1890. 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 | 13,653 × 6,800 px · prints to 46 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pikes Peak panorama |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488070 |
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