Devil's Gate Bridge
Salt Lake City: [C.R. Savage], (c.1870). Stereoview. Albumen photograph [9.5 cm x 16 cm] on an orange/gray mount [10 cm x 18 cm] Rubbing to corners. Manuscript identification in pencil on the reverse. Item #4401
Image shows the Union Pacific's Devil's Gate Bridge in Weber Canyon crossing the Weber River. While not identified as a Savage view on the mount, this view is held in the Bancroft Library and is identified as C.R. Savage.
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: $75.00