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Creator:
Savage,
C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909
Title:
C.R. Savage photograph collection
Dates:
1865-1910 ( inclusive )
Quantity:
3 boxes (3.0 linear ft. )
Collection Number:
USU_P0038
Summary:
The C.R. Savage photograph collection consists of 130 original photographs
taken from around 1865 to 1895. The majority of the photographs are cabinet card portraits
(many of children) from his Salt Lake City studio including a 1888 portrait of Wilford Woodruff (4th LDS Church President), and
a 1897 view of Temple Square. The remainder consists of: stereographs of
the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads; an interior shot of the Salt
Lake City Tabernacle; two oversize landscapes; and two carte-de-visites.
Repository:
Utah State University. Special Collections and ArchivesMerrill-Cazier Libraryscweb@usu.edu
Languages:
Collection materials are in English.
Sponsor:
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant,
2007-2008
Biographical Note
Charles R. Savage (1832-1909) was one of the most prominent American photographers of
the late nineteenth century. He is perhaps best known for shooting the coming together
of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869.
His photographic trips, however, took him throughout the West from the 1860s to the
1890s and his images were sold across the United States and reproduced in Eastern
periodicals. A convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he grew up in
Southampton, England and moved to New York City in 1855. He slowly mastered the new
medium of photography and by the time he and his young family made their way to Utah in
1860 he was ready to set up a permanent studio. Savage was a savvy businessman whose
profits from a successful art/photography store funded his various photographic
endeavors. In Utah he was known not only as a photographer but also as a philanthropist
and passionate defender of the Mormon Chuch. He would eventually enter into polygamist
unions with four women.
Content Description
The C.R. Savage photograph collection consists of 132 original photographs
taken from around 1865 to 1895. The majority of the photographs are cabinet card portraits
(many of children) from his Salt Lake City studio including a 1888 portrait of Wilford Woodruff (4th LDS Church President), and
a 1897 view of Temple Square. The remainder consists of: stereographs of
the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads; an interior shot of the Salt
Lake City Tabernacle; two oversize landscapes; and two carte-de-visites.
: Restrictions
Open to public research.
: Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of
the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents
from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Permission to publish material from the C.R. Savage photograph collection must
be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
:
C.R. Savage photograph collection, 1865-1910. (P0038). Utah State University. Special
Collections & Archives Department.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
Organized numerical by photo number.
:
Source unknown; Photo 1:58 purchased from Deseret Industries.
:
Register completed by Ryan Swanson, October 2001, and revised by Daniel Davis, November
2006, September 2012, and May 2013
:
Maxwell D. Cohn Collection (P0007). 3:08:06.
Herschel Bullen Collection (P0018). 1:04-7, 1:15, 03:08, 03:12, 03:29, 3:38-47.
Whitney Smith Collection (P0034). 1:01, 1:01a, 1:04a, 1:06-09, 2:04-7, 2:19, 3:01, 3:03-04, 3:09-11, 3:15, 3:22, 3:24.
Western Views Photograph Album (P0205). 1:19-1:27.
Leonard Arrington Collection (P0316). 1:02:06-07, 1:03:01, 1:03:08, 1:06:02, 1:07:02-04, 1:17:02, 2:30:01-02, 4:02:01, 5:01:03-06, 5:01:08,
5:01:11, 5:01:13, 5:01:15-16, 5:05:01, 5:07:07, 5:09:08, 5:10:01, 5:10:09-09a, 5:11:04, 5:11:12.
Detailed Description of the Collection
1:001: Portrait of woman in wedding dress, Mrs. Eliza
Slade, 1877
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1:002: Three quarter profile portrait bust of Amelia
Folsom Young, 1870s
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1:003: Full length portrait of Heber Jeddy and Lucy S.
Grant. Taken on tenth wedding anniversary, 1887
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1:005: Bust portrait of Wilford Woodruff, fourth president
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Copyright , 1888
Cabinet Card. Negative Available.
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1:011: ¾ profile half portrait of teenaged girl with long
dark hair
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1:015: Bust portrait of Jennie Card of Logan, Utah, ca. 1880s
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1:016: Bust portrait of young girl. Miss Vivian Little, ca. 1880s
Cabinet Card. Negative Available.
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1:018: Bust portrait of woman, Miss Lindsay, horseshoe
clasp under her chin
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1:019: Full sitting portrait of young child sitting on
animal hides in summer dress
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1:020: Bust portrait of a balding middle aged gentleman
with goatee. Description on back gives address of Mrs. Edwin Kimball, Salt Lake,
Utah, 124 sixth E. St
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1:021: Full profile portrait of young woman, Susie Riter
of Logan, Utah, ca. 1880s
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1:023: Full sitting portrait of young child in a long
white dress with ribbons on shoulders sitting on animal hides
Negative Available. Cabinet Card.
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1:024: Full sitting portrait of a baby in long white dress
sitting on hides
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1:027: Portrait of young girl and a baby in large white
dress
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1:028: Bust portrait of young child wearing a cap and a
big bow on head
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1:031: Bust portrait of woman and boy (probably mother and
son). Boy with large bow tie
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1:033: Full portrait of young girl sitting on hides.
Cabinet Card. Negative available.
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1:034: Full portrait of two young girls. Rug draped
furniture visible
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1:035b.: Bust portrait of Will C. Barnes (1858-1936), 1880s
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1:036: Sitting portrait of young girl holding a straw hat
in white dress with button-up mid-calf boots visible
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1:038: Standing portrait of long-haired girl leaning on a
thick book on a table
Negative available. Cabinet Card.
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1:039: Standing portrait of girl in fringed dress leaning
on table with flowers and book
Negative available. Cabinet Card.
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1:040: Portrait of young boy sitting in upholstered chair
wearing a lace collar with crucifix around his neck and bracelet around right
wrist
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1:043: Bust portrait of young man in overcoat and large
Windsor tie
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1:044a: Sitting portrait of young girl in white
dress
Negative available. Cabinet Card.
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1:044b: Temple Square from south-east corner looking
north-west, Salt Lake City, Utah; part of Utah Jubilee Exhibition Hall visible, 1897
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1:045a: Bust portrait of middle-aged woman with pendant
and broach and earrings
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1:045b: Standing portrait of young girl with doll in toy
crib. Merlie Savage, ca. 1890s. "Ralph's little girl Merlie." "Savage Grandaughter
[sic] of C.R. Savage"
Negative Available. Cabinet Card.
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1:046: Profile bust of older gentleman. Letter N visible
on tie-pin and he is wearing a three piece suit
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1:047a: Standing portrait of an older woman in dark dress
with cap, possibly a widow, arm resting on upholstered chair
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1:047b: Portrait of two children. Standing boy holding hat
with bows on it, sitting boy in dress with large buttons and lacy white collar
sitting on a rock
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1:048: Bust portrait of woman wearing a ribbon on right
lapel and wearing earring
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1:049: "Looking Across Donner Lake, To the Summit." Two
people visible in small boat
From Views of the Great West series. Stereograph
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1:050: "Lake Phoebe, head of Canyon"
From Views of the Great West series. Stamp visible of "Alma Marker, Agent Manti
City, Utah" on back. Stereograph.
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1:051: Two people standing on, "Shore of Salt Lake,
Wahsatch [sic] Mountains in the distance"
Mountains are not visible in the
image. From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Territories
series. Stereograph.
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1:052: "East end of Bear River Canon. Utah. U & N
Branch. U.P.RY" , 1891
(A retired original photograph from board A-1746).
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1:053: Interior of the Salt Lake City tabernacle
decorated with flags and paper garlands
(Taken from board A-0319).
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1:054: View of central Salt Lake City (including
Tabernacle and foundation of Temple) looking south from Arsenal Hill, ca. 1870
From Views of the Great West series. Stereograph.
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1:055: Group of men and women sitting/standing next to
Soda Springs, Idaho, ca. 1880
From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho series. Stereograph.
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1:056: "View of Camp Douglas from Residence of Commanding
Officer, looking South", ca. 1890
From Views of the Great West series. Stereograph.
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1:057: "Hanging Rock, American Fork Canon." Utah
Two men sitting on a Hand car on railroad tracks. From Views of the Great West
series. Stereograph.
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1:058: "Lake Blanche. Heart of the Wasatch Mts. Utah"
, 1870s
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1:059: "Top of Witch Rocks, Weber." Utah, Weber
Canyon, ca. 1870
From Union Pacific Railroad Views. Stereograph
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1:060: "Sentinel Rock - Echo Canon." Utah, ca. 1870
From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and
Wyoming Territories series. Stereograph
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1:061: "Church Butles - A Wash." Wyoming, ca. 1870
Stereographs. From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and
Wyoming Territories series.
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1:062: "North Fork, above Alta, from the Track." In
California(?)
From Central Pacific Railroad series. Stereograph.
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1:063: "Reflectives, Donner Lake." California
From Central Pacific Railroad. Illustrated by C.R. Savage
series. Stereograph.
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1:064: "Devil's Gate - Distant View." Utah, Echo
Canyon, ca. 1870
From Union Pacific Railroad. Illustrated by C.R. Savage series. Stereograph.
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1:065: "Finger Rock, near Tunnel No. 3." Utah, Echo
Canyon, ca. 1870
From Union Pacific R.R. Illustrated by C.R. Savage series. Stereograph.
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1:066: "Mormon Tabernacle, 250 feet Long, 150 feet Wide,
80 feet High, will seat 12,000 Persons." Salt Lake City, Utah, ca. 1870
From Views of the Great West series. Stereograph.
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1:067: "Needle Palm, (Yucca Brevifolia,) growing on the
desert, south of St. George, Southern Utah." Joshua Tree, Utah, ca. 1870
From Views of the Great West series. Stereograph.
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1:068: "West Side of East Temple Street, Salt Lake City", ca. 1870
From Views of the Great West series. Stereograph.
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1:069: "Wahsatch Mountains from University." Salt Lake
City including view of the Exchange Building, ca. 1870
From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and
Wyoming Territories series. Stereograph.
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1:070: "Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood Canon." Utah, ca. 1870
From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and
Wyoming Territories series. Stereograph.
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1:071: "Group of Ute Indians." Children, Utah, Ca. 1880
Illustrated by C.R. Savage, Salt Lake City series. Stereograph.
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1:072: "Digging out a Train from a Snow Drift." Union Pacific Railroad(?), ca. 1870
From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming
Territories series. Stereograph.
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1:074: A view of Salt Lake City, probably taken from
Capitol Hill, ca. 1865
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1:075: A view of Lion and Beehive Houses in Salt Lake
City, ca. 1870
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1:076: A view of the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City
under construction, 1860s
(probably a later printing from ca. 1900).
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1:077: "On the grade for the Blue Lakes, Idaho," carriage
pulled by three teams of horses in the Snake River Valley, ca. 1890s
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1:078: "Mormon Temple Block Salt Lake City," looking
northwest at the Mormon Temple Square in Salt Lake City, ca. 1900
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1:081: "Interior of Mormon Tabernacle, showing great
o[r]gan of 12.000 pipes"
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1:082: "East side of Salt Lake City", ca. 1860s
From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Territories, series. Stereograph.
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1:083: Bloomer cut on line of Central Pacific Railroad
From Views of the Great West, series. Stereograph.
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1:084: View of Beehive house, Salt Lake City, Utah
From Views of the Great West, series. Stereograph.
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1:085: Finger Rock, Weber Canyon, Utah
From Views in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana series. Stereograph.
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1:086: Tunnel No. 3, Union Pacific Railroad, Weber Narrows, Utah
From Views in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana series. Stereograph.
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1:087: "Second, South Street, and Theatre," includes the Salt Lake City Opera House
From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Territories, series. Stereograph.
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1:088: "Meeting of Engines, laying last The U.P.R.R. & C.P.R.R." at Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory, Utah
A copy of original stereograph.
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1:089: Men posed beside Pulpit Rock, Echo Canyon, Utah
From Views in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana series. Stereograph.
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1:090: "Ogden from the U.C.R.R. bridge," Utah Central Railroad bridge and engine
From Views in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana series. Stereograph.
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1:091: View of Salt Lake City from Capital Hill including Beehive House and Theatre, Utah
From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Territories, series. Stereograph.
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1:092: "Approach to Salt Lake City, from the Utah Central Railroad"
From Views of the Great West, series. Stereograph.
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1:093: "Tunnel No. 3 and Weber River," Union Pacific railroad, Weber Narrows, Utah
From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Territories, series. Stereograph.
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1:094: "Tower Rocks, Green River." Wyoming
From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Territories, series. Stereograph.
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1:095: "Scene on the Rio Virgin," Virgin River near Zion Naional Park, Utah
From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Territories, series. Stereograph.
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1:097: "Mormon Jubilee Salt Lake July 21 to 26 - 1897 (Childrens Day)," Salt Lake City, Utah
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1:098: "Hall of Relics - Utah Pioneer Jubilee," Salt Lake City, Utah
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1:100: "Bannock Indians," two shirtless older men
From Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Territories, series. Stereograph.
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1:101: Tea Kettle Rock, Green River, Wyoming
From Views in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana series. Stereograph.
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1:102: "Tower Rock - Green River, Wyoming Ter"
From Views in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana series. Stereograph.
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3:01:01 through 3:01:08: Utah, 1868-1880
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folder
3
1
Box
Folder
3
1
3:01:01: "Views of the Great West. Centennial Rocks near Red Buttes, U.P.R.R." Wyoming
1868-1880
3
1
3:01:02: "Views in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. Hardscrabble Cañon, Weber"
1868-1880
3
1
3:01:03: "Utah. Mormon Co-operative Stores," Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution probably in Salt Lake City
1868-1880
3
1
3:01:04: "Utah. Se-go-witts and his Bride, Ute Chief," Chief Sagwitch (Shoshone)
1868-1880
3
1
3:01:05: "Utah Series. View from City Hall, Looking East" Salt Lake City, Utah
1868-1880
3
1
3:01:06: "Utah. Little Zion Valley- South End, Headwaters- Rio Virgin"
1868-1880
3
1
3:01:07: "Utah, Big Cottonwood Cañon, Cañon Road"
1868-1880
3
1
3:01:08: "Utah. Approach to Salt Lake City, from U.C.R.R. Track," Utah Central Railroad
1868-1880
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3:02:01 through 3:02:05: Views In Utah, Idaho, and Montana, 1868-1880
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folder
3
2
Box
Folder
3
2
3:02:01: "Views in Utah, Idaho, and Montana. Working on the Grade," probably Mormon workers in Weber or Echo Canyons for the Union Pacific Railroad
1868-1880
3
1
3:02:02: "Engineer's Camp at the Mouth of Weber Cañon"
1868-1880
3
1
3:02:03: "Views in Utah, Idaho, and Montana. Ute Squaws"
1868-1880
3
1
3:02:04: "Devil's Gate Bridge, Weber"
1868-1880
3
1
3:02:05: "Devil's Gate, Weber"
1868-1880
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3:03:01 through 3:03:11: Union Pacific R.R., 1868-1880
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folder
3
3
Box
Folder
3
3
3:03:01: "Rock Cut- Green River," Wyoming
1868-1880
3
3
3:03:02: "Snow Plow in a Drift"
1868-1880
3
3
3:03:03: "View near Devil's Gate Station," workers adjusting the rails, Utah
1868-1880
3
3
3:03:04: "Rock Cut, near Aspen," showing Engine no. 82, Wyoming
1868-1880
3
3
3:03:05: "Sherman Station, 8242 feet above the sea," Wyoming
1868-1880
3
3
3:03:06: "Dale Creek Bridge, 660 feet long," Wyoming
1868-1880
3
3
3:03:07: "Platte River at Fort Steele," Wyoming
1868-1880
3
3
3:03:08: "Dale Creek Bridge, 132 feet high"
1868-1880
3
3
3:03:09: "Teapot Rock, Green River," Wyoming
1868-1880
3
3
3:03:10: "Split Rocks, Green River," Wyoming
1868-1880
3
3
3:03:11: "Rock Cut near Aspen," probably engine no. 82
1868-1880
3
3
3:03:12: "Devil's Gate Bridge, from above."
1868-1880
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3:04:01 through 3:04:03: Central Pacific R.R., 1868-1880
box
folder
3
4
Box
Folder
3
4
3:04:01: "Secret Town Trestle, near Gold Run," California
1868-1880
3
4
3:04:02: "Bloomer Cut, cost $1,000,000 to construct," Auburn, California
1868-1880
3
4
3:04:03: "Donner Lake, from Tunnel 12," California
1868-1880
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3:05:01 through 3:05:02: Cabinet Cards, 1889-1910
box
folder
3
5
Box
Folder
3
5
3:05:01: "Views of the Great West. Devil's Slide, Weber Cañon"
1889-1910
3
5
3:05:02: "Views of the Great West. Looking East from the Bridge, Ogden Canon"
1889-1910
3
5
3:05:03: "Views of the Great West," Salt Lake Temple
1889-1910
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Savage images in the A-boards
A-0199a.: The Lion House, Salt Lake City, Utah
A-0199b.: Temple Square, Salt Lake City, after completion of
the Salt Lake Temple in
1893
A-2399: Salt Lake Tabernacle Construction Scenes, Reprinted
by C.E. Johnson
1860s
A-4432: Thomas W. Sloan
June 16, 1801
A-4433: Rachel Ridgeway Ivins Grant
(1821-1909)
A-4434: George Kirkham and Daughters Leah and Maud
1894
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