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HomeContents > People > Photographers > C.R. Savage

Names:
Born: Charles Roscoe Savage 
Other: Charles R. Savage 
Joint: Savage & Ottinger 
Dates:  1832 - 1909
Born:  England, Southampton
Died:  US, UT, Salt Lake City
Active:  US
Gender:  Male
 
  
English-born photographer who emigrated to the USA in the winter of 1855-1856. He became a prominent photographer of the American west, being the first to photograph the landscape of what would later become Zion National Park. He photographed in Utah with George Ottinger and took one of the seminal photographs of the American West when he recorded the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869.

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ThumbnailC.R. Savage: Baptism of 130 Indians of the Shebit Nation at St. George, by the Mormons
ThumbnailC.R. Savage: C.R. Savage's photo wagon in the desert, south of St. George Utah
 
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Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer.Show on this siteGo to website
Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
 

Internet resources

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Charles R. Savage - Stereograph catalog 
http://cprr.org ... 
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum (www.cprr.org) 
  
 

Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.230-231 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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