July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Two cabinet card photographs of Salt Lake City, includes: “TEMPLE BLOCK, Salt Lake” by C.R. Savage” c. 1890’s. Very good condition...plus; a second C.R. Savage image c. 1890’s of an enormous building on the lake. C.R. Savage (1832-1909) became one of the foremost 19 th century landscape photographers of the western United States , as well as a renowned studio portrait photographer, with his studio in Salt Lake City , Utah . The idea to emigrate from England to Utah undoubtedly began shortly after his 1848 baptism and membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). He is best known for his 1869 photographs of the linking of the first transcontinental railroad.
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