1879Leadville, Colorado
Bird’s eye view of Leadville, Lake County, Colo.
Augustus Koch; Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, lithographers.
Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
1879·Leadville, Colorado
Bird’s eye view of Leadville, Lake County, Colo.
Augustus Koch; Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, lithographers.
Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
What this plate shows
A mining camp drawn as a city: Leadville in the first boom year, streets of a high-altitude town, mountains named on the horizon. Koch’s lithograph, 1879. A small town, not Denver. Not a photograph.
- Image type
- Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
- Source
- Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, panoramic maps, item 75693139. Direct scale of that raster. Not a redraw.
- License
- Public domain.