“New Tabernacle – 200 feet long”
Salt Lake City: Pioneer Art Gallery, (c.1870). Stereoview. Albumen photograph. [8.5 cm x 15.5 cm] on a green mount [9 cm x 18 cm] Faint rubbing to corners of mount. Item #50
Identified by hand in ink in the lower margin beneath the image. In this image the newly completed Tabernacle stands on a mostly empty Temple Block.
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: $25.00