(MORMONS) Group of 6 cabinet card photographs of the Mormon

Sale 2517 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 1,875

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(MORMONS.) Group of 6 cabinet card photographs of the Mormon Tabernacle and other Salt Lake City views. Albumen photographs, each about 4 x 6 inches, on original card mounts, each captioned in negative or in pencil on verso; minimal wear. Vp, circa late 19th century

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Three of these images bear the backmark of "Mellen's Views, published by the Rocky Mountain View Company, Colorado Springs, Colorado": an exterior view of the Tabernacle, an interior shot, and the Bee-Hive House with the Eagle Gate--all apparently by the Colorado photographer George E. Mellen. We are aware of no other Mellen views of Salt Lake City, though one circa 1888 Mellen view of Castle Gate, UT appeared in a Swann sale, 31 March 2011, lot 121. Also included are three without backmarks or photographer's credits: one captioned in the negative "Assembly Hall, S.L. City" (possibly by important local photographer Charles Roscoe Savage, who used a similar caption style); one showing the Tabernacle and Salt Lake Temple under construction, dated 1886 in pencil on verso; and another of the snow-topped Tabernacle and Salt Lake Temple after completion, with the Deseret News building in foreground circa 1893-1909.