Salt Lake City, Utah; LDS Church; John Taylor. Collection of Seven (7) Vintage Albumen Photographs. Early 1880's by Charles Roscoe (C.R.) Savage

Four 8 x 10 inches and three approximately 4 x 6 inches vintage albumen photographs, soiling and staining, slight fading in the margins, one photo creased, captions in the back of two photographs very sligthly visible in the front. None of these Savage Salt Lake City prints is signed (they could be on the verso, but it is not possible to examine as they are pasted-in on thick cardboard, 8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches) but 5 of them (or a variant) can be seen in the Digital Collections of Brigham Young University (BYU) Library as numbers PH 1986, PH 2578, Mss P24 item 239, PH 500 (a variant), PH 4555 (a variant), where they are directly attributed to renowned pioneer Mormon photographer C.R. (Charles Roscoe) Savage (American, 1832-1909), one of the foremost 19th century photographers of the Western United States. For the two other Savage photographs, we could not find a copy in the collection of BYU Library, but they are also certainly by him. 5 pages disbound from an album, with 4 other additional unimportant photographs (European subjects not by Savage), all pasted-in. Handwritten captions in ink for some of them :

[1] "Salt Lake City, Utah, The Wasatch Mountains in the distance, 14th July 1882",
[2] "Assembly Hall, The Temple, Tabernacle, 14th July 82" (some creasing noted),
[3] "Interior of Tabernacle", decorated with garlands for the Sunday School Pioneer Day Jubilee in 1875, with at the far end, the Schoenstein & Company organ,
[4] Brigham Young's Grave (not captioned, death August 1877),
[5] Eagle Gate (not captioned, taken after stone walls were removed on both sides of the gate),
[6] "John Taylor, President Mormons, July 14/82" (cabinet format; dimensions, 5 3/4 x 4 inches), the very famous sitting portrait photograph by Savage of the Leader and Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), and
[7] "The Devil's Slide U.P.R.R, 13th July 1882", with the Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Weber Canyon, Utah, not too far from Salt Lake City.

On the second print, the Salt Lake City view taken from the roof of the Mormon Co-operative Store (ZCMI) on Main Street, we can see "Savage's Art Bazar / C.R. Savage Fine Art Gallery". As he needed more space, Savage had moved there in 1875, but on June 26th 1883, his Art Bazar burned to the ground, with all of his negatives. The population of Salt Lake City was 20,768 in 1880. Please consult my Photography Catalogue for more items.. Sheets. Good. Photography.