Mormon Temple, Salt Lake [BACKED WITH] Lion House / Beehive House

[Salt Lake City]: [Savage Art Bazar], 1895. Cabinet card [10 cm x 15 cm] gelatin silver print mounted back-to-back with two smaller views [7.5 cm x 10 cm] on a gray mount [18 cm x 23 cm] that appears to be from an album. The title in the lower right corner of the Temple view. Both views have strong contrasts. Image of the Salt Lake Temple taken from the south east. BACKED WITH Two small tourist views of Brigham Young's homes on South Temple, The Lion House and the Beehive House. Interestingly above the lions is a sign that reads 'Latter-Day Saints College.'

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.