Cape Horn Looking West C.P.R.R. [Photograph]

  • Photograph
  • Salt Lake City, UT
By Savage, Charles Roscoe [Sierra Nevada Mountains]
Salt Lake City, UT. Photograph. Albumen photograph [4 x 7 1/4"] in mat [11 x 14"]. A photograph taken by one of the 19th century's premier landscape photographers of the western United States.

Pioneer Mormon photographer Charles Roscoe Savage was a prolific Mormon photographer who photographed throughout Utah and the western United States. He is noted for taking the first photographs of what would later become Zion National Park and he recorded the construction of the Mormon Temple and Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. An exhibit of Savage's photography was displayed at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892 where he was awarded a diploma and medal.

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