Crystal Park Auto Trip. Colorado Springs and Manitou
by [Unkwn.]
- Used
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- Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
[Colorado Springs and Manitou, Colorado, 1915]. Folding photo brochure with two mounted sepia tone photographs, each dated or captioned in ink. Brochure: black paper bifolium with printed cover, 6½ x 8¾ inches. Photographs each measuring 5 x 7 inches. Near fine.
1915 Photographic souvenir of an autobus tour of Colorado Springs and Manitou.
The folding photo brochure contains two mounted photographs, one depicting a sweeping roadside view of the Rocky Mountain terrain and the second showing an 18-member tour group, plus their driver, posing in front of a five-row touring automobile or autocar whose canopy roof reads "Crystal Park."
A handprinted caption within the photographic negative gives the date August 22, 1915 and the mountainous altitude of the touring group: "8745 Ft."-over 1½ miles high. Three tour members are identified: "Moe[?], Mother, M.C."
Interesting documentary images from the earliest years of automobile touring of the Rocky Mountains.
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- Bookseller
- Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3727747
- Title
- Crystal Park Auto Trip. Colorado Springs and Manitou
- Author
- [Unkwn.]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
About the Seller
Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
About Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
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