(WEST) Western photo album including views of Salt Lake City

Sale 2546 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 938

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

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

(WEST.) Western photo album including views of Salt Lake City and Colorado. 65 carte-de-visite photographs inserted into a contemporary album. Oblong 8vo, disbound with original decorative gilt boards present, worn; some mount leaves torn or worn, photographs generally well-preserved. Vp, circa 1870s

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Highlights include three images shot by Savage & Ottinger of Salt Lake City: a portrait of Brigham Young, a view of the "New Tabernacle" (completed in 1867), and a view of "Main Street, Salt Lake City" (illustrated) which we have been unable to trace elsewhere. Visible are signs for "Gurney & Co., Boots and Shoes," "Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Drugs &c," and "Stage Office" (with a covered wagon out front).
Early Colorado is another focus, including a view of an imposing residence shot by the National Gallery of Art in Central City. Portraits taken in Denver include a circa 1870 hand-colored portrait of Birks Cornforth, Jr., aged 3; and apparently his mother Caroline Cooper Cornforth. Birks Cornforth (an early Denver grocer) seems to be shown in a Chicago portrait shown nearby. Other photographs are from Chicago, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, and St. Louis. One shows the Park Place Hotel in St. Paul, MN.