Denver Album & 1866 Business Directory
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Section 1 includes a representation of the best stereo cards sold to the public during Denver's formative years--beginning with 1863. The photographers' emphasis centered on business establishments as the city grew on the high plains at the edge of the Rocky Mountains. The unique text of Section 1 is a photo-offset reproduction taken from The City of Denver Business Directory of 1866. It includes one of the earliest histories of the city and describes the spartan lifestyle of the founding fathers as well as their trials and tribulations establishing the boomtown that became the Queen City of the Plains.
Section
2 graphically
illustrates the expanding downtown scene as Denver merchants supplied
gold-field bound
prospectors with the necessary tack for mountain travels. Eight pages
are devoted to a
greatly enlarged artists bird's-eye view of Denver in 1892; graphically
illustrating (in
three dimension) buildings and homes.
Section
3 takes the
reader through the changing scene at Denver's train station as it
evolved over the years.
Section
4 reveals one
of the finest transportation systems in America. Horse drawn cars,
cable cars, electric
rail transit and trolley systems moved people to every section of the
growing city before
the automobile became popular.
Section
5 includes
carefully chosen views of civic structures along with schools and
churches.
Section
6 offers a
fascinating glimpse of heavy industry and a closer look at various
downtown shops and
their interiors.
TREASURED
DENVER MEMORIES
This
spectacular album is made possible through the
generosity of Richard A. Ronzio and his personal collection of
extremely rare Denver
vistas. Mr. Ronzio is one of the few darkroom technicians with the
knowledge necessary to
create solar prints. Employing the same process as the original
photographers, he has
painstakingly reproduced their original glass negatives on specially
coated paper. The
craftsmanship involved in creating this volume may be unmatched in
years to come as the
escalating price of material and labor will render such an undertaking
nearly impossible.
Originals of some of the reproductions in this book would command
prices in the hundreds
of dollars--many views were reproduced from stereo cards; an item in
great demand by
collectors.
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