View of Salt Lake City (Salt Lake County), Utah; shows a dirt Main Street with pedestrians and electric streetcars, wide sidewalks lined with multi-story masonry commercial buildings, some with smoke stacks, and flag poles; twenty-two telephone poles are seen in one city block, all with multiple tiers of lines. The Mormon Temple is under construction in the distance. Signs on buildings read: "Geo. M. Scott & Co., Metal Merchants, Mining Machinery, Stoves & Hardware" "Davidson, Leyson & McCune, Jewelers" "Margelis Bros., Toys, Books & Stationery" "Manhattan Shirts" "H. Dinwoodey Furniture Co., Wallpaper & Carpets" and "Rauerbach & Bro., Dry Goods & Carpets."
Date
[between 1890 and 1900?]
Notes
Accession number: 86.200.2373; Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: oxidized, retouched, scratched.; Formerly Jackson 4186.; Number: "04186" inked on negative.; Title inked on negative.; Title on negative envelope reads: "Salt Lake City - Main Street looking north - C.R.G.W."; R7201026352
Salt Lake Temple--1890-1900.; Salt Lake City (Utah)--1890-1900.; City & town life--Utah--Salt Lake City--1890-1900.; Commercial streets--Utah--Salt Lake City--1890-1900.; Mormon churches--Utah--Salt Lake City--1890-1900.
