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Brigham Young Residence

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I don’t know the date of this photo. It might take a specialist in the history of that wall to date this – the wall rose and fell depending on the need for security and for public works for those drawing support from the Tithing Office.

I like seeing the Eagle Gate when it was really a gate, before its mount was widened to span State Street. Also, the Beehive House had not yet been extended in the rear by Brigham’s son John W.; that later work about doubled the size of the house.

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  2. I don’t know Salt Lake history so I can’t guess the date. There is a collection of his photographs at the library of the University of the Pacific–which I believe is in Stockton, California, where he had his photography business.

    I also found a couple of entries in the Princeton University Library Chronicle for 1966, photographs dated 1870 of “Salt Lake City,” credited to Reilly and Spooner, and an 1875 print of the “Salt Lake Tabernacle” credited to Reilly alone. But, alas, the Google book doesn’t include copies of the photographs.

  3. Early- to mid-1870s would make sense because of the new railroad access to Utah and the insatiable curiosity about Mormons. That curiosity lasted for — well, has it ever ended? — so your instinct to research the photographers or distributors is probably the most reliable indicator of date.

  4. My instinct is usually to look for a simple solution. Anything difficult I leave to people who are good at this!

    I saw the 1870 date and noted the proximity to the completion of the railroad and figured that all sorts of people might be visiting SLC who wouldn’t have been coming before. including, perhaps, photographers who had been in business in California.

    (It turns out that Reilly–who I suspect was the senior partner in the business–also had had a thriving business in Yosemite Valley before 1870, taking photographs of the tourists with the glorious scenes of that valley as backdrop. All at a time when Spooner, born in 1845, would have still been a very young man.)

  5. Hey, Ardis, any chance we can get some new installments on your “Random Reasons Why I Like Brigham Young” series? 🙂

  6. Haha, thanks for asking, JimD! I’ve been concentrating so completely on the early 20th century for a few years now that Brigham has slipped from my mind (not my heart!). I’m have to start thinking randomly …

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