Marshall Pass, 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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Step back in time with Marshall Pass, Colorado, a historic print rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Marshall Pass, Colorado
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Marshall Pass, a high crossing of the Continental Divide in central Colorado, is the setting for this hand-colored-looking view, which the Detroit Publishing Company issued as a photochrom print around 1899. The company's photochrom process, a Swiss technique adapted for American use, layered several lithographic stones to build up soft, saturated color over a black-and-white photograph, giving mountain scenery a painterly quality. Marshall Pass was an important stop on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, whose trains climbed these grades, so such prints helped travelers and armchair tourists picture the Rockies. The record notes a copyright deposit, a sign the image was registered for sale as a commercial publication.
| Created / published | c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co., no. 50207. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Mountains.United States--Colorado--Marshall Pass. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,402 × 2,541 px · prints to 21 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif18300_MarshallPassColorado |
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