Pike's Peak Toll Road, Colorado, circa 1890
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Pikes Peak -- near Colorado Springs in the Colorado Rocky Mountains -- drew many tourists in the late nineteenth century. By 1890, the Cascade and Pikes Peak Toll Road Company had opened a rough passage up the mountain. During their long ascent, paying sightseers in mule-drawn carriages passed this closed U.S. Army Signal Corps weather observatory station.
Pikes Peak -- near Colorado Springs in the Colorado Rocky Mountains -- drew many tourists in the late nineteenth century. By 1890, the Cascade and Pikes Peak Toll Road Company had opened a rough passage up the mountain. During their long ascent, paying sightseers in mule-drawn carriages passed this closed U.S. Army Signal Corps weather observatory station.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1890
Creators
Unknown
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.O.4254
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in
Inscriptions
Handprinted in bottom of image : 3404 Pike's Peak Toll Road
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