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These artifacts offer professional and exclusive insight into the strategic development of the most important form of transportation in the 19th and 20th centuries and shed light on a bygone era of Utah and the Rockies' history.
Over 1,000 images from one of the foremost 19th century landscape photographers of the western United States. The collection includes portraits, many of prominent Mormon leaders; views of Utah and the west; mining operations; and some Native American portraits.
13 de jun. de 2022 · The junction of Green and Yampah Canyons, in Utah, in 1872. Nearly 150 years ago, photographer O’Sullivan came across this evidence of a visitor to the West that preceded his own expedition by another 150 years — A Spanish inscription from 1726.
27 de nov. de 2022 · Vintage Photos of the Real Wild West, 1870s-1900s - Rare Historical Photos. These old photographs of the American frontier capture life and struggle in the Wild West. The completion of the railroads to the West following the American Civil War opened up vast areas of the region to settlement and economic development.
11 de ago. de 2017 · Thanks to historians, some of Utah’s earliest photographs have been preserved so that we can all enjoy them. Take a look at how different life in Utah in the late 1800s was! 1. Daggett County, 1870. Surveyors make camp near the Henry's Fork of the Green River. U.S.Geological Survey/flickr.
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Introduction. When photography was introduced to the world in 1839, society and culture were on the brink of profound change. In the words of one of its inventors, William Henry Fox Talbot, the new art that directly reproduced nature without the human hand was “a little bit of magic realized.”
The Utah Division of State History has over a million photographs in our holdings with almost 300,000 digitized and accessible online. These images are found in over 1,000 unique collections that document Utah’s history from the middle of the 19th century to the late 20th century.
