Poster for Denver & Interurban Railroad Trips to Eldorado Springs

Archive

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Broomfield History Collections

Name/Title

Poster for Denver & Interurban Railroad Trips to Eldorado Springs

Entry/Object ID

2016.7.1

Scope and Content

Digital copy of a poster for Denver & Interurban Railroad train trips to Eldorado Springs, Colorado, 1917. The poster has "Eldorado Springs" displayed prominently at the top, with pictures of mountain scenery, hot springs, resort buildings, and a Denver & Interurban electric train below it. Captions on the poster read, "Only 65 Minutes from Denver" An Ideal Mountain Resort in Picturesque Boulder Canon Open-Air Swimming Pool, with Natural, Warm Radium Water Denver & Interurban Railroad Electric Trains" Information about purchasing Denver & Interurban tickets and catching trains at Union Station in Denver are printed at the bottom of the poster. The poster was published by Brock-Haffner Press in Denver, Colorado. A poster number in the lower left corner suggests a printing date of August 6, 1917. The back of the poster has various writing and lettering on it, possibly related to a gambling game played by railroad employees. Original poster size is 22" x 28."

Collection

Permanent Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Poster

Nomenclature Class

Advertising Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Railroad travel, Tourism, Hot springs, Posters

Search Terms

Eldorado Springs, Denver & Interurban Railroad, Electric railroads--Colorado--History

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1917 - 1917

Archive Size/Extent

Digital copies only, see Multimedia.

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1917 August 6 Date(s): 1917/08/06 Copy/Orig/Other: Scan (JPEG, PDF, etc)

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2018.18.1

Provenance

Notes

Custodial History: The original poster is in the care of railroad enthusiast and collector Thomas Peyton, who scanned a digital copy February 2016. He donated the scan to the Broomfield Depot Museum that same month. The original file (in TIFF format) was scanned at 600dpi, 24 bit color. It was copied and cropped to the scale of the original poster image by Broomfield Depot Museum Archivist Kevin Smith, March 2016, then saved as a TIFF Master file. A 300dpi access JPEG copy was also created. Both are stored in PastPerfect under Multimedia files.