A black-and-white print of a bird's eye view of a town showing the grid of roads on a flat plain with mountains in the distance.

Bird's Eye View of Salida. Chaffee County, Colorado, 1882.

Henry Wellge (1850-1917)

Date

1882
Object Type

Prints
Medium

Toned lithograph
Contributors

Printed by Beck & Pauli

Published by Joseph John Stoner
Dimensions

Image: 7 x 14 5/8 in.
Sheet: 9 11/16 x 15 3/4 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
u.c. in ink: [descriptive notations]
u.r. in graphite: Mt. Chipela \ (Ouray's wife) \ [graphite sketch of mountain]
c. in ink: [descriptive notations]
l.l.: [J.J. Stone]r, Madison, Wis [descriptive keys 1-12 with ink descriptive notations]
l.c.: BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF \ POPULATION 1500 7456 FT. ABOVE SEA LEVEL \ SALIDA. \ CHAFFEE COUNTY \ COLORADO. \ 1882. \ Copyright 1882 by J.J. Stoner, Madison, Wis.
l.r.: Beck & Pauli, Lithographers, Mil[waukee]; [descriptive keys 13-15, A-F, with ink descriptive notations]
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1963.4
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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