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Charles R. Savage (1832-1909)
Two Stereoviews from C. R. Savage's Central Pacific Railroad Series, circa early 1870s
Showing Views Along the CPRR Line: Rock Cut above Alta & American River from Cape Horn
$50
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Salt Lake City, C. R. Savage, early 1870s
VG
[PHOTOGRAPHS] [STEREOVIEWS] [RAILROAD] [TRANSPORTATION] [CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD] C. R. Savage. Two early flat mount stereoviews from the Central Pacific Railroad series of photographs taken by the Utah photographer C. R. Savage, circa early 1870s.
Flat green mounts, both with the same worded imprint on the reverse side: “Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Territories, Views of the Most Interesting Points on the Union Pacific, Central Pacific, and Utah Central Railroads, Groups of Indians, and Portraits of the Representative Men of Utah, taken by C. R. Savage, Pioneer Art Gallery, East Temple St., Salt Lake City, Utah.”; each measures 7 x 3.5 inches. VG condition. [24-XWA]
Born in England, where he converted to Mormonism, Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909) was a photographer in Brooklyn, NY and Council Bluffs, Iowa, before moving to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1860. He quickly became one of the more prolific photographers of the developing American West and its variety of landscapes. He photographed the meeting of the rails at Promontory Point in 1869 and in the 1870s traveled extensively around the West taking photographs.
These two stereoviews are characteristic of his work documenting the new railroad lines connecting the West with the rest of the United States. Each view is titled in the mount below the right-side image: “Rock Cut, above Alta” and “American River, from Cape Horn”.
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