Colorado, the Upper Twin Lake – Antique 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 Colorado, the Upper Twin Lake, a historic print rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Colorado, the Upper Twin Lake
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Upper Twin Lake is one of a pair of mountain lakes in Lake County, Colorado, set in the high country that drains toward the Arkansas River valley. This color print was made around 1898 by the Detroit Publishing Company using the photochrom process, a Swiss method that layered several lithographic stones over a photograph to produce vivid color. Such prints were popular souvenirs and helped introduce Colorado's scenery to eastern audiences during the railroad-driven tourism boom of the late 1800s. Its copyright deposit at the Library of Congress preserves an early record of how the region was pictured for travelers.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | H77184 U.S. Copyright Office Detroit Publishing Co., no. 50106. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Lakes & ponds. Mountains.United States--Colorado--Twin Lakes Reservoir. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,452 × 1,131 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217146 |
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