Garfield Beach. Salt Lake City. U+N. Ry.
Salt Lake City: C.R. Savage, Art Bazar, (c.1889). Boudoir cabinet card. Albumen photograph [12.5 cm x 20.5 cm] on a cream colored mount [13.5 cm x 21.5 cm] Title in the negative. Art Bazar backstamp. Fine. Item #11052
Nice view of the famed swimming resort that was located on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake and predated Saltair (which was also located on the south shore and to the west). Image is taken from the water and with a southwest view of a group of canoes and the pavilion and boardwalk in the background.
"By 1878 there was a small competing establishment at Black Rock, a little farther east, and in 1881 the skipper of the General Garfield, Captain Thomas Douris, took a running jump into the resort business himself. He beached his boat a short distance west of the Black Rock resort and added bathing and boating facilities. At first called Garfield Landing, Douris' resort soon became generally known as Garfield Beach." - Dale Morgan from the 'The Great Salt Lake.'
Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909) was an accomplished and prolific photographer who lived successfully within his Salt Lake City community and traveled widely throughout the West taking photographs and befriending other important photographers of his day such as Carleton Watkins, Edward Wilson, Timothy O'Sullivan, Alfred Hart and A.J. Russell. Savage took several of the West's most famous images at the celebration of the joining of the transcontinental railroads at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869. Savage also took the first photographs of what became Zion National Park.
Price: $600.00