Aspen, Colorado, 1893 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Aspen, Colorado, 1893. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colo. 1893
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Aspen, Colorado, 1893
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Aspen, Colorado, in 1893 was a silver mining town at high altitude in the Roaring Fork Valley, and its fortunes rose and fell with the price of silver. The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 had kept the boom running, drawing thousands of miners, merchants, and speculators to the town's streets and brick commercial blocks. That summer, Congress repealed the act, silver prices collapsed, and the Panic of 1893 spread through the national economy. Mines cut back and many residents left, though the Wheeler Opera House and Hotel Jerome, both opened in 1889, still stood as reminders of the town's prosperity. The town's grid of streets, laid out along the valley floor between the creeks, shows how much of Aspen's life was packed into a narrow space.
| Created / published | 1893 |
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| Creator | koch, augustus |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Aspen, Colorado, drawn in 1893. 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 | 8,816 × 6,512 px · prints to 29 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colo. 1893 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488049 |
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