'Devil's Gate - Weber Canon'

Salt Lake City: Savage & Ottinger, 1868. CDV. Carte de visite. Albumen [9.5 cm x 5.5 cm] photograph on the original cream colored mount [10 cm x 6 cm] Savage & Ottinger hand stamp on the reverse. Contemporary pencil identification on back: 'Devil's Gate - Weber Canon.' Likely in Savage's hand. Image shows a rushing Weber River through Weber Canyon. 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.