C.H. Amerine's birdseye map of Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado from 1895
| Birdseye View of Cripple Creek Mining District, Col. | |
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| Date: | 1895 |
| Author: | C.H. Amerine |
| Dwnld: | Full Size (15.6mb) |
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This map isn't part of any series, but we have other Colorado maps that you might want to check out.
Amerine's birdseye of the mining district of Cripple Creek, Colorado [gmap] is so high-angle as to be almost overhead, which really works for what he's trying to do, here.
Originally produced for the Cripple Creek Sunday Herald I could see this as being very useful tool for orientation – and possibly, in a pinch, wayfinding – for the thousands of new workers that such an enterprise must've drawn into the area
For more maps and images from this period in the region's history, visit the Colorado Historical Society.
