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Salt Lake City,UT - Salt Lake County - c1880 - Bird's Eye View Photograph :

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Photographic Images Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Salt Lake City,UT - Salt Lake County - c1880 - Bird's Eye View Photograph :
Photograph measures 5 ¾’’x 4’’ and 6 ½’’x 4 ¼’’ on white matte. Medium contrast and focus is sharp. Photograph has fading on the upper half. Matte has a small dark dot of the left side and wear on the lower right corner. Writing located on the bottom right corner reads “East Part of Salt Lake City.” On the back of the matte it reads “C. R. Savage, Art Bazar, Salt Lake City Utah.” The photo shows a bird’s eye view of the booming city of Salt Lake City. Several homes, buildings and churches can be seen with a beautiful mountain in the background. The photo was taken and produced by Charles R. Savage. Savage was a native of England who moved to the U.S. and converted to the Mormon faith. He studied photography and made portraits of Mormon immigrants before the move to Utah. He took several photographs of the American west and was the first person to photograph the area today known as Zion National Park. (Mautz, Carl . Biographies of Western Photographers. Carl Mautz Publishing, Nevada City, California. 1997.)