Canon of the Rio Las Animas, Colorado – Vintage 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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This rare historic print captures Canon of the Rio Las Animas, Colorado in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Canon of the Rio Las Animas, Colorado
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The Animas River gorge in the San Juan Mountains near Durango is the subject here, and the record also tags railroads, a reminder that the Denver and Rio Grande's narrow-gauge line ran up this canyon beginning in the early 1880s. By around 1900, the scenery had become a draw for travelers. The print is a photochrom, a color process that the Detroit Publishing Company used to turn photographs into lithographic prints, and its saturated hues made such views popular as souvenirs.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | D2597 U.S. Copyright Office Detroit Publishing Co., no. 59019. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Rivers. Canyons. Railroads.United States--Colorado--Animas River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,428 × 1,147 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217143 |
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