Leadville, Colorado, 1912 – Antique Photo 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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Leadville, Colorado, 1912 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic view of Leadville in 1912, looking west. Behind the town and across the intervening valley of Arkansas River are the lofty summits of the Sawatch Range
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Leadville, Colorado, 1912
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Leadville in 1912 was still a mining town at more than 10,000 feet, though the silver that had made it famous had given way to lead, zinc, and lower-grade ores that smelters could still treat at a profit. The Colorado Midland Railway, which reached the town in 1887, carried ore out and supplies in, while the Denver and Rio Grande line also served the district. Residents of Lake County knew the place as a hard-working mining seat whose fortunes rose and fell with metal prices set far away. Shift whistles on the hills and smoke from the smelters marked a community that still lived by the day's ore returns.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | geological survey (u.s.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Colorado |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,397 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic view of Leadville in 1912, looking west. Behind the town and across the intervening valley of Arkansas River are the lofty summits of the Sawatch Range |
| Reference | CO Leadville 1912 |
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