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A lively, poster-sized advertising and promotional view of Denver that combines a playful, three-quarter aerial perspective with a dense catalogue of mid-1970s landmarks.
The downtown skyline is dominated by the gold-glass First National Bank Center (1974) and the Hilton tower. Ribbons of arterial streets carry the eye to the State Capitol, Civic Center, University of Denver, the National Western Stock Show grounds, Mile High Stadium, and Stapleton Airport. To the west rise stylized Front-Range peaks, with Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Lookout Mountain sketched at their base.
The surrounding parchment-style border is packed with illustrated anecdotes that trace the city’s story from the 1858 gold strike through railroad expansion, the silver crash, early streetcars, and the boom that followed the Second World War. Small cameo scenes pf miners panning, a 19th-century locomotive, rodeo cowboys, and Victorian ladies in bustles, punctuate the text, lending the piece a lively, “old-west-meets-new-west” flavoor.
