Figure 62: Salt Lake Utes
Maker: Charles R. Savage (American, ?-1909)
Sitter/Subject: unknown (“Indians at Salt Lake”)
Genre: studio portrait
Process: carte de visite; albumen print
Dimensions: cdv standard
Date: circa 1865
Collection: Greg French
Notes: printed on reverse: “C. R. Savage (Late Savage and Ottinger), Pioneer Art Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah.”
Savage began his career as a daguerreotypist in New York City in the early 1850’s. He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1860, and became famous as the official photographer for the Union Pacific Railroad. (Source: Craig’s Daguerreian Registry, vol. 3, p. 502.)