Ute Brave Cabinet Card (Circa 1870s)

Salt Lake City, UT: C.R. Savage Art Bazar. Photograph. Very Good +. A striking, proud photograph, a Cabinet card, of an Ute Brave, taken circa the 1870s by the renowned Utah railroad photographer Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909). A prolific Mormon and Church of the Latter-day Saints photographer, Charles Savage, born and raised in England, emigrated to The States in the 1850s and eventually found his way to the American West, where he eventually set up shop in Salt Lake City, surviving through his portrait and landscape commissions and the business generated at his shop. He's recognized to this day for taking the first photographs of what would become Zion National Park and recorded the construction of the Mormon Temple and Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. This wonderful portrait of the Ute Brave, likely taken at Savage's Art Bazar (with the clear stamp at the rear confirming this) measures 4 1/4" wide by 6 1/2" tall and is clean and crisp and very well-preserved, mounted on its original card stock. Just a touch of very light spotting at the lower left corner, still though bright and very sharp. A nice example of mid to late 19th century Native American-themed original photography.