Zina Presendia Young Williams Card photographs
Scope and Contents
Collection includes photographs of Zina Presendia Young Williams Card, Brigham Young's wives and family, Joseph F. Smith, George Albert Smith, Eliza R. Snow, Zina D.H. Young, Susa Young Gates, and the Card family. C.R. Savage is the photographer of many of the photographs. Materials dated approximately 1830-1949.
Dates
- Creation: approximately 1830-1949
Creator
- Card, Zina Presendia Young Williams, 1850-1931 (collector, Person)
- Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909 (photographer, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research. Items kept in cold storage; access requires 24 hours advance notice.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to use material from this collection must be obtained from Reference Services at specialcollections@byu.edu.
Biographical / Historical
Zina Presendia Young Williams Card (1850-1931) was the daughter of Brigham Young and Zina Diantha Huntington, and wife of Charles Ora Card. She served as director of the Brigham Young Academy Primary Department and as a member of the General Board of the Primary Association.
Biographical / Historical
Charles Roscoe Savage, born August 16, 1832, in England, became one of the foremost 19th century landscape photographers of the western United States, as well as a renowned studio portrait photographer, with his studio in Salt Lake City, Utah. The idea to emigrate from England to Utah undoubtedly began shortly after his 1848 baptism and membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Savage's immigration in 1856 to New York marked the beginning of his known interest in establishing a photography business. On assignment from the Church he traveled to Florence, Nebraska. His family subsequently joined him in 1860 and Savage established a primitive studio in Council Bluffs, Nebraska. Finally, the family made their way across the country arriving in Salt Lake City on August 29, 1860. The next day he made business arrangements with Marsena Cannon, a daguerreotype photographer and owner of a studio on East Temple. In 1862, with Cannon's departure to St. George, Utah, Savage formed a partnership with George Martin Ottinger. Savage & Ottinger legally dissolved their firm in 1870, and that same year Savage formed the Pioneer Art Gallery, and in 1875, needing more space, he replaced it with the Art Bazaar.
On June 26, 1883, his Art Bazaar burned to the ground, with all of his negatives. After his death on February 3, 1909, another fire in 1911 destroyed all of the negatives from the last twenty-five years of his career. Although his sons continued to operate the business, the Art Bazaar closed its doors permanently on December 31, 1926.
Extent
3 folders (0.30 linear ft.)
1 oversize folder (0.20 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
Materials were donated to L. Tom Perry Special Collections by Mary Firmage in 1978 and 1986.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated; Mary Firmage.
Appraisal
Photographs (Photograph Archives).
Processing Information
Processed; Jamie Wiser; July 2022. Updated finding aid for DACS compliance and accuracy. Integrated portrait into collection.
Subject
- Card family -- Photographs (Family)
- Young family -- Photographs (Family)
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Presidents (Organization)
- Smith, George Albert, 1870-1951 -- Photographs (Person)
- Smith, Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding), 1838-1918 -- Photographs (Person)
- Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey), 1804-1887 -- Photographs (Person)
- Gates, Susa Young, 1856-1933 (Person)
- Card, Zina Presendia Young Williams, 1850-1931 (Person)
- Young, Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Smith, 1821-1901 (Person)
- Title
- Register of Zina Presendia Young Williams Card photographs
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Abe Austin
- Date
- 2012 February 22
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States