In and Around Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City: Souvenir Novelty Company, 1906. [37]pp. Oblong quarto [25 cm x 33.5 cm] Gray string bound wrappers with the title printed in black on the cover. Better than very good. Small discoloration at the foot of the cover, otherwise nice. Nice view book from C.R. Savage of Salt Lake City and the surrounding towns and canyons with half-tone engravings by Williamson and Haffner Engraving Company. Views of buildings and street scenes of Salt Lake City, Ogden, Provo, Mercur, Lehi, Willard, etc. Also includes views of the Utah LDS Temples and the leaders of the Church, a compiled group shot of the then First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve. Excellent panorama of Salt Lake City at the center. All the images carry captions, some are lengthy. Flake/Draper 7529f.

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.