View of the Tithing Office and Deseret Store at South Temple and Main Streets in Salt Lake City (Salt Lake County), Utah. Shows a one-story structure attached to a two story structure with a double-decked porch. The structures are enclosed within a stone wall with wooden gates. Women, men, and children stand by an open-air purveyor; a horse is tied to a cement pillar by a telegraph pole and electric lines. Signs read: "Office, Historical Record" and "Deseret Evening News - Book and Job Printing Office, Church Publications for Sale." A publicity poster shows a Scotsman in a kilt with a bagpipe; sign reads: "Old Hoss Hoey A Parlor Match Thurs. Sept. 24."
Date
[between 1880 and 1900?]
Notes
Accession number: 86.200.2368; Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: oxidized, retouched.; Formerly Jackson 4181.; Number: "04181" printed on film and attached to negative.; Title on negative envelope reads: "Salt Lake City - Mormon Tithing House - C.R.G.W."; Title printed on film and attached to negative.; R7201026310
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Facilities--1880-1900.; Deseret News Office--Buildings--1880-1900.; Salt Lake City (Utah)--1880-1900.; Publishing industry--Utah--Salt Lake City--1880-1900.
