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Denver Public Library
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Mormon Temple, laying the capstone
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Call Number
Z-1047
Creator
Heliotype Printing Co.
Date
1892 April 6
Summary
Men and women crowd into Temple Square at the corner of Main and South Temple Streets in Salt Lake City (Salt Lake County), Utah. People and horses and buggies fill the streets outside the walls of Temple Square; some men climb telephone poles. Scaffolding encloses the spires of the granite Salt Lake Mormon Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Shows the dome of the Mormon Tabernacle and the spires of the Assembly Hall. Inked on heliotype: "Reached via the Union Pacific System."
Physical Description
1 photomechanical print : collotype ; 37 x 46 cm (15 x 18 in.) printed on sheet 56 x 72 cm (22 x 28 in.).
Born-Digital or Analog
Analog
Subject
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints--Buildings--19th century
Salt Lake Temple--19th century
Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah)--19th century
Union Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations--19th century
Mormon tabernacles--Utah--Salt Lake City--19th century
Salt Lake City (Utah)--19th century
Temple Square (Salt Lake City, Utah)--19th century
Building construction--Utah--Salt Lake City--19th century
Mormon churches--Utah--Salt Lake City--19th century
Plazas--Utah--Salt Lake City--19th century
Rites and ceremonies--Utah--Salt Lake City--19th century
Spectators--Utah--Salt Lake City--19th century
Geographic Area
Salt Lake City (Utah)
Collection
Photographs - Western History
Related Material
Image File: ZZR711001047
Type of Material
Collotypes
Travel posters
Digital Version Created From
Miss Mary J. Munroe
Notes
Condition: mat soiled, torn. Title printed on sheet. Union Pacific Railroad insignia imprinted on front of poster with title. Shows a shield that reads: "Union Pacific. The Overland Route."; R7110010472
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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Denver Public Library Special Collections, [call number]
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Heliotype Printing Co.,
Mormon Temple, laying the capstone
(1892 April 6). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 11/03/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1102342