Indians of North America -- Great Basin Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Albumen prints
Studio portraits
Photographs
Place:
Mariposa Grove (Calif.)
American Fork Canyon (Utah)
Hanging Rock (Colo.)
Mirror Lake (Mariposa County, Calif.)
Big Cottonwood Canyon (Salt Lake County, Utah)
Oregon
California
Utah
Witch Rocks (Utah)
Colorado
Date:
circa 1875-1890
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs made by Charles Roscoe Savage, most of which depict landscapes and natural rock formations in Utah, California, Oregon, and Colorado. The collection also includes portraits of Ute people and images of Ontario Mill and railroad tracks leading into a town. Most of the mounts are stamped with the name of Savage's studio, the Art Bazaar.
Biographical/Historical note:
Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909) was an English-born photographer in Salt Lake City, Utah. He immigrated to the United States around 1856, shortly after becoming a member of the Mormon Church. After spending time on assignment for the church in Nebraska, he settled in Salt Lake City in 1860 and went into partnership with Marsena Cannon, a daguerreotype photographer and studio owner. When Cannon left Salt Lake City in 1862, Savage partnered with George Martin Ottinger under the name Savage & Ottinger. When that partnership dissolved in 1870, Savage opened the Pioneer Art Gallery, which he renamed Art Bazaar in 1875. Starting in May 1869, Savage also became a photographer for the Union Pacific Railroad, a project that continued almost to his death. Most of Savage's negatives were destroyed when the Art Bazaar burned, first in 1883 and again after his death in 1911.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 163, USNM ACC 24548
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs by Savage can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 37, Photo Lot 79, Photo Lot 140, Photo Lot 90-1, and Photo Lot 92-3, and the BAE historical negatives.
Additional photographs collected by Lewis Engel can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24 and Photo Lot 37.
Artifacts collected by Lewis Engel can be found in the Anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History in accessions 21428, 24548, and 24232.
The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University holds a collection of Savage photographs (MSS P 24).
Additional photographs by Savage also held by Utah State University and Southern Methodist University.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Studio portraits
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 163, Charles Roscoe Savage photographs of Utah, California, Oregon, and Colorado landscapes and Ute people, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
