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These are all generally from Arsenal Hill.

You can get a really nice view of the way that the valley starts to expand and grow around the construction of the Tabernacle. These are all again, between 1847-1869.

The Tabernacle was built between 1863 and 1875, The Assembly hall and Salt Lake Temple came along a little later. I'll post those pictures.

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Here we have an illustration of the Salt Lake City and valley. It's early in the city's settling.

I love the little illustration in the lower corner.

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Part of me wants to just upload another photo dump but I think it'd be pretty cool to theme it a little. So I pulled a bunch of early Salt Lake City illustrations, panoramic views of the SLC valley area between 1847 and 1869. This period is officially known as the Pioneer Era in Utah, when a great deal of immigration into the area took place. There were also a number of people who passed through the city on their way West into California.

In Some of these illustrations, we can see landmarks like The Salt Lake Temple and Tabernacle, State Street, There are some interesting little bits too.

I've included information in the individual captions for the images.

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Some of these are AJ Russell images held at the Oakland Museum of California, in their collection.

Some are of Echo city near Echo Canyon (I think they're mostly Echo Canyon area)

the octagon house is in Provo (or was), The large building ont he corner is in Ogden (I think).

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These are all a bunch of Mills through out Utah.

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Most of these are of the ruins of the Brigham City Tannery in Brigham City. I think the hope was they could relocate and restore this for use in Heritage Park (which I cover in an earlier post).

I think they opted to just build a new one.

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Some of these are early 19th century Salt Lake City. The old Salt Lake Theater, the Gardo house, state street, etc.

they are also in the digitized collection.

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Forest Farms

This is one I can give you some information on. It's actually pretty cool if you're into this sort of thing. So this is the Forest Farm house that was used by Brigham Young's family some time ago. There's a whole Wikipedia page about it but basically:

It's a 2 story house with a basement build between 1861 and 1863.

I've heard rumors it's haunted.

They chopped it in half horizontally when they moved it to its current location.

Brigham Young didn't live there.

Some of these are in the current digital collection, which you can access here. They're specifically in the Classified Photographs collection, but you can click on the link and just go hog wild; there's a bunch of stuff. You won't be disappointed. And yes, it is digitally housed on the servers at the Marriott Library at the University of Utah. You can really get lost in the digital archives there. It's wonderful.

The other photographs were taken during the planning stages of the development of Heritage Park, where the giant "This is the Place" monument is located. Heritage Park is a collection of buildings, either original or replicas of the original.

The photographs of the walls, damage, etc., were taken during the park's planning stages, as they decided what they could save and how they were going to do it. It's pretty cool. You'll see other images from these boxes, as I upload everything I have so that it's out on the internet.

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People and stage coaches and a magic bridge.

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More railroad stuff

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These are a bunch of early pictures and if possible, the back of the photograph is in the image next to it.

Mostly used for Railroad PR materials to get folks on a choo choo train to see Utah.

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This is a supreme court judge who was the guy Thurgood Marshall replaced, and in the middle is one of the old Governors of Utah. I think his name was Carl.

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Bridges, camp grounds, horses, people, and a magic bridge.

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Lots of early utah stuff. Echo Canyon, etc.

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I can't even begin to tell you what all of these are pictures of. Many of them came without any information.

Sometimes being an archivist means obsessing over the tiny details so you can give something a name and a date.

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This is not the SS Utah. It's a commercial ship.

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someone made a collection of photographs about the early automobiles. Most are in Utah. I don't know what the cars are.