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Stereoscopic Photograph (Albumen Prints) of Camp Douglas, near Salt Lake City, by C. R. Savage, Salt Lake City, c.1870

Inventory Number 12585


Item type
Object
Makers
C. Savage
Provenance
Presented by Beatrice M. Blackwood in 1966. Part of a collection of stereoscopic photographs that belonged to the artist, travel writer, and folklorist Estella Canziani (1887-1964).
Primary inscriptions
Printed front and back of mount.
Physical material
Paper
Card
Dimensions
Height: 87mm Width: 176mm
Inventory No
12585
Accession Number
1966-147

Description

Stereoscopic albumen prints mounted on green card. From the series 'Utah'.

Camp Douglas, a US army post, was established in 1862, and renamed Fort Douglas in 1878, providing date parameters for C. R. Savage's Utah and railroad stereoscopic photographs.

One of a collection of 74 early American stereoscopic photographs from the collection of Estella Canziani.