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    Maps of Utah Territory, Great Salt Lake Valley and Salt Lake City : with portrait and autograph of Brigham Young

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    Title and publisher transcription from cover. Great Salt Lake valley (c1869) -- Map of the territory of Utah (c1870) -- Plat of Salt Lake City (c1870). Each map has its own copyright information, e.g. for Plat of Salt Lake City, that information is "Am. Photo-Lithographic Co., N.Y. (Osborne's Process)." "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870 by B.A.M. Froiseth, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the U.S. for the 3rd Dist. of Utah." Vignette: Brigham Young portrait and signature. Pierced design: University of Utah Library. Stamp: 85050. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.

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    Document appointing Elias Smith as Chief Justice of Great Salt Lake County

    Manuscripts

    Printed document appointing Elias Smith as Chief Justice of Great Salt Lake County, signed by Brigham Young as the Governor of the Territory of Utah.

    mssHM 27997

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    Salt Lake City

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    This disbound album contains 59 photographs consisting mostly of commercial views of cities and miscellaneous subjects, including images of Mormon figureheads, Salt Lake City, Utah; city scenes of San Francisco; and some views of Native Americans of the Southwest and Great Plains. Also included are posed photographs of Japanese women and men in traditional dress.

    photCL 135

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    Salt Lake City

    Visual Materials

    This disbound album contains 59 photographs consisting mostly of commercial views of cities and miscellaneous subjects, including images of Mormon figureheads, Salt Lake City, Utah; city scenes of San Francisco; and some views of Native Americans of the Southwest and Great Plains. Also included are posed photographs of Japanese women and men in traditional dress.

    photCL 135

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    Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains

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    Atlas includes: Map of a reconnoissaince [sic] between Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri River, and the Great Salt Lake on the territory of Utah, made in 1849 and 1850 under orders of Col. J.J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau, by Capt. Howard Stansbury ... aided by Lieut. J.W. Gunnison ... and Albert Carrington ; Drawn by Lieut. Gunnison and Charles Preuss. 173 cm x 76 cm. Museum measurements: 68 x 30 inches.

    656583

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    Garfield Beach, Great Salt Lake

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    The 122 prints depict Alaskan nature scenes, some Native American totems, and a variety of scenic views in the western United States. These photographs were taken circa 1890s. The collection is particularly strong in images of Caucasian tourists; Salt Lake City, Utah; Manitou Springs and Colorado Springs, Colorado; Wrangell, Alaska; Sitka, Alaska; Alaskan natives; glaciers; British Columbia health resorts; and Western railway lines. Brigham Young, a leader of the Mormon Church, is listed as a personal name index term because a photograph of his grave is included in this collection.

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