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Salt Lake City: C.R. Savage, Art Bazar, 1898. 20 plates + 42pp. Oblong sextodecimo [13.5 cm x 17.5 cm] Red side sewn limp red wrappers. Lacks cord with textblock laid in. Otherwise near fine. View book containing twenty pages of plates of Salt Lake City and the surrounding area, that is followed by 42 pages of descriptions of the plates as well brief descriptions of life in Salt Lake and facts about various aspects of the city. 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.

[Salt Lake City]: Pubished at the Art Bazar by Charles Savage, 1893. 6 1/2 x 5". 48 pp. [18] accordian folded leaves of photographic plates.Some images include a 3-panel birds-eye view of the Salt Lake Valley; the Mormon Tabernacle; Salt Lake Temple; various public and private buildings around Salt Lake City; Brigham Young's Grave; Native Americans; the first 4 Presidents of the Mormon church and much more. Red and black blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering to front board. The text block appears to have been professionally re-attached with Japanese tape; minor wear; a near fine copy. Scarce view book of Salt Lake City Including letter-press description and illustrations of public edifices, hotels, business blocks, churches, Indians, bathing resorts, etc., and a variety of information, valuable for the tourist or resident, from reliable sources. Charles Roscoe Savage (1832 - 1909) was a British-born landscape and portrait photographer most notable for his images of the American West. Following his… Read More