Salt Lake City Scenes

File — Box: 2, Folder: 2

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Scope and Contents

1: Unveiling of Brigham Young Monument, 1897
2: Salt Lake Scene, 1870: 1. Tabernacle 2. Wilford Woodruff home-later, Valley House 3. Morgan College 4. 14th Ward Meeting House 5. Old Endowment House 6. Temple Wall
3: Salt Lake Scene, 1892: 1. Beulah W. Beatie home 2. Edward Bynon Saloon 3. Addition to Beulah Beatie home 4. Utah Armory- later Wm Dousher Laundry 5. Wilford Woodruff (Thebe Carter) home 6. Valley House Hotel 7. Heber J. Grant Livery Stable 8. Rober Burns, Residence 9. Clark Eldredge Building 10. Margon Hotel (Built by John Morgan in 1891) 11. St. Mary's Academy (Catholic School) 12. Fremont School (1st Free district school in city) 13. Salt Lake County Court House 14. Fourteenth Ward Meeting House 15. George M. Cannon home 16. Rear Porter Rockells home 17. John Taylor's homes 18. Clark's Livery Stable 19. Thomas E. Taylor's home 20. Thomas Butlers Second hand Store 21. Assembly Hall
4: Main Street, showing West side to 3rd South Street, 1885
5: Main Street and Second South, East 1. Wasatch building (Nicholas Groesbeck) 2. Groesbeck Block 3. Old Faust Livery Stable- (2nd floor occupied by U.S. District Court) 4. Masonic Hall, 1887
6: Walker House: Main Street in the 1880s, Dirt Road, Mule Car Track, West side of Main Street looking North West from 3rd South
7: Walker Brothers Early 1880s: 1. This corner purchased by Walker Brothers 1866 2. Here for many years they conducted general merchandising business 2. In early 1870s they opened first Walker Brothers Bank. 3.-First home of Salt Lake Tribune 4.-California Stables- A.C. Sprague, Prop. 5.-Townsend House Hotel 6.-George Q. Cannon home- North West Corner [of] 1st West + South Temple 7. Moragn's Commercial College 8.-14th Ward Meeting House 9.-Robit [sic] S. Campbell home. Looking North West from 2nd South and Main Street
8: Main Street and South Temple-1880: 1. Temple under construction 2. Tabernacle 3. Assembly Hall 4. Orson Pratt Observatory 5. Council House 6. C.R. Savage Art Gallery 7. Mule car tracts
9: Mule Car Days, NorthWest corner of 1st South and Main.
10: EastSide of Main Street at 2nd South, 1873: 1. Masonic Hall- now Bamberger Building 2. Elephant Store- now Walker Bank corner 3. Groesbeck Block- now Walgreen's Drug Corner
11: Historic City Hall, 1873. In 1873 gas lights were installed on the city streets which were adorned by crooked telegraph poles
12: North Side of first South Street between East Temple and 1st East, 1870 1. John R. Clawson Residence
13: 1. Ensign Peak 2. Powder House, Arsenal Hill (Capitol Hill) 3. Deseret News and Tithing Office 4. Old Council House 5. Old Constitution Building The powder house on Arsenal Hill blew up at 4:47 1/2 p.m. April 5, 1876
14:1. Mount Olympus 2. Mount Olympus Cove- rapidly developing residential district 3. Childhood Home of Ruth May Fox 4. First Road out of Parleys Canyon 5. L.D.S. Church Woolen and Cotton Factories 6. Now paved highway
15:View of South East Section of Salt Lake City from the top of City Hall, 1869: 1. 13th Ward Meeting House 2. William H. Jackson home 3. Octagon House- Maude Adams sttended school here. 4. Jacob Gates home 5. Parleys Canyon 6. Mt. Olympus 7. Big Cottonwood Canyon 8. 13th Ward School
16:Historic City Hall, 1868 2. Wasatch Mountains 3. City Hall 4. First South Street
17:South Temple and Main looking North East 1865 1. Historic Deseret Store and 2. Deseret News Building 3. Tithing Store 4. City Wall
18:1. Old Endowment House 2. Wilford Woodruff Home - later Valley House Hotel 3. 14th Ward Meeting House - first built in the Valley 4. Porter Rockwell Home 5. John Morgan Home 6. Wall around Temple Lot 7. George A. Smith Home, 1860
19:Brigham Young's Barn Yard, Looking south through Eagle Gate, about 1857 Brigham Young's "Log Row."
20:Union Square, Black 102, Orson Pratt Survey, 1847 In pioneer days it was used as a temporary encampment place where income pioneers camped until they were given permanant location. Site of the University of Utah between 1880's and 1899. Present site West High School.
21:West Side of Main Street, 1870 Store in which Walker Brothers started business between 1st + 2nd South Westside Hawkins store now Daynes jewlery- Building at left present site Kearns Building
22: Brigham Young Monument, shortly after it was erected in 1897
23: Brigham Young Monument, Deseret News Building- L.D.S. College in the background, 1898

Dates

1850s-1980s

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

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