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Salt Lake City: C.R. Savage, Art Bazar, 1870. Cabinet card. Albumen photograph [10.5 cm x 16 cm] on a tan mount [11 cm x 16.5 cm] Title in the negative at the foot. Strong contrasts. Grand [Colorado] River in Eagle County, Colorado, with the Denver and Rio Grande tracks on the left.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.