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Railroads -- Utah -- Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Photographs of the Salt Lake and Utah Interurban Railway

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 306
Scope and Contents

Collection includes photographs and one negative of the Salt Lake and Utah Interurban Railway. Includes images of train depots and trains. Dated approximately 1910-1949.

Dates: approximately 1910-1949

Photographs of Western scenes

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197233600912]
Identifier: MSS P 84
Scope and Contents

Collection includes photographs of Western scenes in Utah, including a Navajo trading post. Many of the locations are associated with the filming of motion pictures in southern Utah, while a few document the development of Zion National Park.

Dates: approximately 1920-1959

C. R. Savage cartes-de-visite of the joining of the rails

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227646939]
Identifier: MSS 4222
Scope and Contents This collection contains two carte-de-visites taken at Promontory Point, Utah during the Joining of the Rails ceremony which linked the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads to form the first transcontinental railroad in the United States on 10 May 1869. On the back of the carte-de-visites is written "Point of Junction of U.P. & C.P.R.R. [Union Pacific & Central Pacific Rail Roads]. Getting ready to lay the last rail" and "Driving last spike U.P. & C.P.R.R.R.s. Promontory...
Dates: 1869