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Salt Lake Temple

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1893-

Administrative History

The Salt Lake Temple (est. 1893) is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Citation:
The Salt Lake Temple, 1983: t.p. (Salt Lake Temple) p. 50, etc. (cornerstones laid 4/6/1853; dedicated 4/6/1893)

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Hyrum Sainsbury photograph of the Salt Lake Temple

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239271015]
Identifier: MSS P 592
Scope and Contents

One photograph of the Salt Lake Temple, in Salt Lake City, Utah, taken by Hyrum Sainsbury in the 1900s.

Dates: approximately 1900

Salt Lake Temple printing plate

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233619714]
Identifier: MSS P 727
Scope and Contents

Salt Lake Temple printing plate, circa 1900-1920s collection contains 1 printing plate of the Salt Lake Temple, Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, and Joseph F. Smith.

Dates: approximately 1900-1929

George A. Smith letter

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230350362]
Identifier: MSS 4158
Abstract

Photocopied holograph letter from George A. Smith, writing from the historian’s office in Salt Lake, to his cousin, Silas S. Smith.

Dates: Other: 1855

Willard Richards and Florence Grant Smith oral histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6813
Abstract

Oral histories of Willard Richards and Florence Grant Smith, taken on reels from 1963 to 1971 and transcribed and edited in 1993 by Willard C. Smith.

Dates: 1993

Lorenzo Snow letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340249]
Identifier: MSS 102
Abstract

The folder contains a printed letter addressed to B. F. Cummings, Jr. and dated 8 September 1894. The item is a form letter in which Cummings' name was handwritten. Snow, then president of the Salt Lake Temple of the Mormon Church, requests donations of books to build up the library of that temple.

Dates: 1894

Table of analyses of water of the Great Salt Lake Basin including an analysis of granite rock

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233244935]
Identifier: MSS SC 494
Scope and Contents

Ms. on graph paper: the collection includes analyses of the acid and base content in the different water sources in the Salt Lake Basin, and of constituent percentages of granite used in building the Salt Lake Temple. Also added is a notation giving the analyses of the water of the Great Salt Lake by Professor D.Q. Allen, 1869.

Dates: approximately 1881-1890

Nelson B. Wadsworth collection of frontier photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 69
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of exhibit photographs assembled by Nelson Wadsworth about the American frontier. Items include the work of various photographers.

Dates: approximately 1870-1919

Brigham Young letter to Samuel W. Richards

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233294708]
Identifier: Vault MSS 779
Scope and Contents Handwritten and signed letter dated 27 Feb. 1853 and addressed to Samuel W. Richards in Liverpool, England. The item was composed in Salt Lake City, Utah. Young reports on the condition of Utah at the end of a severe winter during which the Utahns received no mail from outside the territory. Young also writes about the sugar industry in Utah, the progress on buildings and machinery of the Deseret Manufacturing Company, the excavations on the foundation of the Salt Lake Temple, the...
Dates: 1853 February 27